Firefighters from the Coos Forest Protective Association are trying to save one of the world’s tallest Douglas fir trees, a 325-foot behemoth on the Oregon Coast known as the Doerner Fir.

At 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 16, the association received a call alerting them of the fire on U.S. Bureau of Land Management land east of Coquille, Oregon.

Firefighters have set up a containment line with sprinklers to prevent the fire from spreading near the ground.

While helicopter teams were able to douse the flames engulfing the canopy above, there’s still a fire burning inside the trunk of the tree about 250 feet up.

However, due to fallout from the treetop, the BLM said in a press release Monday that “fire managers have ruled out the possibility of utilizing tree climbing crews to reach the remaining fi

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