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General Sherman, the world's largest tree, is wrapped in fire-resistant blanket as wildfires threaten park

As fire and ash spread through Sequoia National Park, fire-resistant aluminum blankets were wrapped around endangered giant sequoias, including the world's largest tree, General Sherman. On Tuesday, ...
KUOW

Here's Why Firefighters Are Wrapping Sequoia Trees In Aluminum Blankets

The world's largest tree recently got a blanket to help protect it from a raging wildfire. Photos of the sequoia named General Sherman — with a base measuring a massive 36 feet in diameter — set off a ...
KVUE

World's largest tree wrapped in fire-resistant blanket as California wildfires rage

THREE RIVERS, Calif — Firefighters wrapped the base of the world's largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they tried to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning ...
Wall Street Journal

How Foil Blankets Are Used to Save the World’s Largest Trees

Firefighters rushed to protect groves of giant sequoias that are native to the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada as the 11,000-acre KNP Complex Fire threatens the largest trees in the world. The ...
The Fresno Bee

Protecting the sequoias: Giant trees wrapped in aluminum blankets as raging wildfire nears

As the KNP Complex Fire continued to spread through Sequoia National Park, the National Park Service put special focus on protecting a collection of famed giant sequoias, the largest trees in the ...
Today

World's largest tree wrapped in fire-resistant blanket in attempt to save it from wildfires

Firefighters wrapped the base of the world's largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they tried to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning Thursday in California ...