</form> Residents have been ordered to leave their homes after huge wildfires cased devastation in California
In Cranston, in the Jan Jacinto mountain range, an area spanning 800 acres is burning
Highway 76 has been shut and houses evacuated as firefighters battle to contain the inferno in the beauty spot
Rebecca Miller, spokeswoman for San Bernadino National Forest, said the fire was "zero percent contained", according to the Palm Springs Desert Sun
One resident who saw the huge smoke cloud told the publication: "It just kept getting darker, bigger
It got a lot cooler because it blocked out the sun." Meanwhile, 400 miles further north, the heart of Yosemite National Park was closed as a fierce wildfire burning just to the west jumped fire lines overnight, pouring thick smoke into the valley and forcing visitors to pack up camp and flee
Heavy black smoke from the Ferguson Fire, which erupted on July 13 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains some 170 miles east of San Francisco, prompted park officials to shut down the main visitor hub of Yosemite Valley as well as Wawona and Mariposa Grove
"Basically all the smoke is funneling into that valley and being held down by the inversion layer," US Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen said, referring to the atmospheric condition that prevents warmer air and smoke from rising
The smoke reduced visibility and posed health risks to visitors in the popular tourist destination as well as park employees, Mackensen said
Seven other firefighters have been hurt battling the flames, which were 25 percent contained as of Wednesday afternoon
More than 3,400 personnel using 16 helicopters and 59 bulldozers were fighting the conflagration
The Yosemite and Cranston fires are among some 60 major wildfires burning in the United States this week that have so far scorched an area of about 1
2 million acres (485,620 hectares). Most are in western states, with blazes also in central Texas and Wisconsin, according to the National Interagency Fire Center
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