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Crews continue to battle the 3,221-acre Washburn fire in #Yosemite National Park.

But officials were growing more confident that the #MariposaGrove of ancient #sequoias would survive the blaze.

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Nearly 700 firefighters were battling the blaze from the air and the ground, including setting backfires, laying hand lines and using bulldozers to create barriers, officials said.

The fire was 22% contained Tuesday morning.

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For days, all eyes had been on two high-priority areas threatened by the creeping flames: the community of Wawona, which remains under mandatory evacuation orders, and the Mariposa Grove, home to more than 500 mature sequoias.

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