--- description: El Portal blaze was at just 5% containment late Monday title: Wildfire threatens Yosemite National Park image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80ef46f87793df4d/69869d9335ba6f7cccc03356/el-portal-yosemite-california-wild-fire.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Disaster](/tag/disaster/) ## Disaster Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Rapid Wildfire Threatens Yosemite National Park by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 29, 2014 11:52 AM CUT  A long exposure image shows the El Portal Fire burning near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on July 27, 2014. A long exposure image shows the El Portal Fire burning near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on July 27, 2014.Stuart Palley—EPA by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 29, 2014 11:52 AM CUT A fast-moving wildfire in Yosemite National Park was threatening to spiral out of control early Tuesday. While firefighters made progress battling a larger wildfire in northern California’s vineyard country, the El Portal wildfire burning across four square miles of Yosemite and the neighboring Stanislaus National Forest was at just 5% containment late Monday. Three campsites and several roads were closed and around 100 homes were at risk, despite what [the National Park Service said](http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4012/ "undefined") was “incredible firefighting work.” [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/western-wildfires/el-portal-wildfire-threatens-yosemite-national-park-n167281?cid=par-time-article%5F20140729 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3051294/wildfire-el-portal-yosemite/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3051294/wildfire-el-portal-yosemite/"},"headline":"Rapid Wildfire Threatens Yosemite National Park","datePublished":"2014-07-29T11:52:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:23:24.952Z","description":"El Portal blaze was at just 5% containment late Monday","url":"https://time.com/3051294/wildfire-el-portal-yosemite/","keywords":["Disaster"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80ef46f87793df4d/69869d9335ba6f7cccc03356/el-portal-yosemite-california-wild-fire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80ef46f87793df4d/69869d9335ba6f7cccc03356/el-portal-yosemite-california-wild-fire.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A long exposure image shows the El Portal Fire burning near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on July 27, 2014.","caption":"A long exposure image shows the El Portal Fire burning near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on July 27, 2014.","creditText":"Stuart Palley—EPA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/disaster/","name":"Disaster"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3051294/wildfire-el-portal-yosemite/","name":"Rapid Wildfire Threatens Yosemite National Park"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"U.S. Wildfires Seen from Space","description":"A video camera aboard the International Space Station captured this footage of the wildfires burning in the Western U.S., including Colorado","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/sDSrAJSM/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2012-06-29T01:01:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/sDSrAJSM.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3051294/wildfire-el-portal-yosemite/","duration":"PT4M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3051294/wildfire-el-portal-yosemite/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```