Firefighters begin to slow raging California wildfire near Yosemite

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MARIPOSA (California), July 26 — Firefighters yesterday finally started to control California’s largest wildfire so far this year, halting its eastward expansion toward nearby Yosemite National Park while thousands of people remained under evacuation orders.The Oak Fire expanded rapidly since it began on Friday, overwhelming the initial deployment of firefighters, as extremely hot and dry weather fuelled its galloping pace through dry forest and underbrush.Several officials with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said the fire initially behaved unlike any other they had seen, with burning embers sparking smaller fires up to two miles (three km) in front of the main conflagration.But firefighters have not seen more of that so-called spotting, Cal Fire spokesperson Natasha Fouts said yesterday from the incident command centre in Merced, about 13…