Emergency services at the US State of Oregon were still working again, it is believed to be one of the oldest trees in the world, the famous pine was caught in the weekend in early Wednesday.
A coastal Douglas cedar, the tree is 325 feet (99 meters) long and is considered at least 450 years old.
Still burning
Megan Harper, a spokesman of the Oregon Bureau of Land Management, said that there were no active flames in the FIR till Tuesday, it still makes a smoldering bets in some areas and the fire brigade can still detect heat within a cavity in a few feet trunk above the ground.
Harper said that the height of the heat signature made it difficult to arrive, and the authorities considered the scaffolding or climbing the trees near the firefighting.
He said that he had an important part of the tree, but it was not in an adjacent risk of completely burning.
“We have lost about 50 feet, just by fire and falling out of pieces,” he said, given that 50 feet (15 m) tops were lost through burning. “So I don’t know where it will stand after this, but it is still a great tree.”
What is fire?
Local news outlets reported that an electric strike was rejected as the cause of the fire, but nothing else can be said about it at this time.
Harper said that the state was doing everything to save the tree.
“There is a lot of history, and so we don’t want to loose it.”
Edited by: Scene Sinico
