A group of workers at California's Yosemite National Park positioned the U.S. flag on Saturday near the Horsetail Fall​ where crowds gather to witness Yosemite's annual firefall​.

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired Feb. 14, staff have banded together to signal “dire distress” by hanging the American flag upside down off Yosemite’s El Capitan. The iconic monolith is famous for its “firefall,

Organizers said the inverted flag, historically used as a sign of distress, was meant to draw attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service.