Residents are returning home Thursday after being forced to flee a wildfire raging outside Yosemite National Park in the United States, but some are wondering what they'll find when they get there, AP reported. Hundreds of residents were allowed back to their homes Wednesday as firefighters announced they had made critical gains in fighting a wildfire charging across the hillsides outside the park. Roughly two-thirds of evacuees were allowed to return home in an area officials said had been spared by the blaze. The evacuation order remained in effect for some 100 homes close to the still-smoldering fire northwest of Midpines, a small town about a dozen miles from the protected wilderness. By Wednesday evening, the 50-square-mile (130 sq. kilometer) blaze sparked Friday by a target shooter was 40 percent contained after reducing 21 homes to ash.
