46 hours of desperate attempts to reach and extract passengers finally successful on Christmas Eve. This story was originally published in December, 2016.

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees. It may lower the tree's standing in global height rankings.

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

Authorities in Oregon are trying to extinguish a fire burning in one of the world's tallest trees near the state's southern coast. The coastal Douglas Fir tree is over 325 feet tall and estimated ...

The top of a historic tree in Oregon is on fire, and investigators are trying to figure out how it happened. The Doerner Fir, a Douglas fir tree that was believed to be about 450 years old and 325 ...

A historic coastal Douglas fir tree known as the Doerner fir, which is believed to be 450 years old and is 325 feet tall, was burning in a fire east of Coquille on Aug. 17, according to the Coos ...