A vicious wildfire closed Yosemite National Park in August 1990. Described as “no joke” by a truck driver who escaped the flames, over 6,000 firefighters combated the blaze, remembers Phil Francis, who worked for Yosemite during the crisis.
In total, Francis spent 41 years working for the National Park Service. But among all the crises he responded to over the decades, nothing has been as pervasive and troubling as the current pandemic — caused by a new pathogen with no proven medical treatments, no vaccine, and no coherent national plan to quell the deadly parasite.
“I haven’t seen anything close to this,” said Francis, who is now chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, an organization of current and former park employees. Read more…
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