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Sun sets waterfall ablaze in Yosemite 'firefall'

For just a couple of weeks every year the last rays of daylight hit Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park, appearing to set the water alight like a river of lava gushing down a mountainside.

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California's signature blue skies put in an appearance on Wednesday, meaning visitors to Yosemite -- who were in exactly the right place at exactly the right time -- got their chance to see the firefall.