https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/23/feels-like-youre-playing-russian-roulette-oak-fire-expands-to-9500-acres-near-yosemite/ > MARIPOSA — The Oak Fire burning near Yosemite National Park in Mariposa County exploded on Saturday to become California’s largest and fastest-moving wildfire of 2022, as the blaze torched more than 9,500 acres of parched terrain and prompted evacuations of thousands of residents in the Sierra Nevada foothills. > What began as a small brush fire on Friday grew six-fold by Saturday afternoon, destroying at least 10 structures and forcing more than a third of Mariposa County’s residents to flee. As of Saturday evening, firefighters did not have any containment on the blaze and the cause of the fire was still under investigation.