The Cragside tree is more than twice the size of the Angel of the North and was planted in the 1860s.

From city plazas to small town squares, these towering Christmas trees draw crowds each winter with impressive scale, ...

Douglas-firs ( Pseudotsuga menziesii) are Oregon's most common trees, but the tree that's ablaze, known as the Doerner Fir, is special. Measuring 325 feet (99.1 meters) tall and with a diameter of ...

Hyperion, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living tree, is officially off-limits to visitors. California's Redwood National Park issued a statement last week that anyone who ...

How would a fire even start that high?

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire that is burning in one of the world’s tallest trees near the state’s southern coast. The Doerner Fir, a coastal Douglas Fir ...

When flames were spotted within one of the world's tallest trees, firefighters flooded the area. Drones, aircraft and hand crews worked for days to tame the fire, successfully stopping it from ...

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Firefighters have been fighting to put out the blaze on the 320-foot-plus Douglas Fir in Oregon Coos Bay District Bureau of Land Management/AP One of the world's tallest non-redwood trees is on fire ...