Emergency responders worked to save the Doerner Fir in Oregon after the coastal Douglas fir, about 325 feet tall and at least 450 years old, caught fire over the weekend. The tree no longer had active flames but continued to smolder in areas, with heat detected inside a cavity roughly 280 feet above the ground. Fire crews considered erecting scaffolding or having personnel climb adjacent trees to reach the heat. Drones were used to assess damage. Approximately 50 feet of the tree's top burned and fell away. Lightning was ruled out and the specific cause remains unknown.
"We've lost about 50 feet of it, just from fire and pieces falling out,"
"So I don't know where it'll stand after this, but it's still a magnificent tree."
"There's a lot of history there, and so we don't want to lose it."
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