Oregon’s firefighter race to save one of the tallest trees in the world

Oregon firefighters are racing to save the fir river – one of the longest and oldest trees in the world – from a fire that has been burned since Saturday.

Officials say the giant fir, which is more than 325 feet (99 meters) and is estimated that it is more than 450 years old, has already been about 50 feet in front of the fire, which may expose its position in the global height classifications.

With more hot and dry predictions along the Oregon coast group, firefighters struggle to put the fire.

Officials discussed some unconventional roads to put out the fire, including building scaffolding to reach and suppress the tree.

The cause of the fire is still unknown, although lightning has been excluded.

On Tuesday, an infrared drone did not find any fire or active smoke at the top of the tree, but it discovered the heat inside a cavity in the trunk at an altitude of 280 feet, Megan Harper, a spokeswoman for the FBI, said.

Mrs. Harper told ABC News that the fire may affect the position of the tree in the global height classifications.

“We lost about 50 feet of it, only from fire and falling pieces,” she said, noting that 50 feet were lost through the top burning. “So I don’t know where to stand after that, but it is still a great tree.”

She also said that there was no danger from burning the tree completely.

She said: “The tree is very large, I got a lot of mass to the point that it would take some time to burn along the tree.”

The COS Forest Protection Association said that the helicopter buckets have reduced the fire activity near the top, while the machine guns and containment lines were prepared around the base. A helicopter is still on standby.