A roadside attraction on northern Vancouver Island burned Wednesday night, in what the town's former mayor is calling an act of vandalism.
Firefighters in Port McNeill battled through the night and into Thursday morning to save what is known as the world's largest tree burl.
Discovered in 2005, the burl was estimated to weigh 30 tonnes when it was cut from a 525-year-old Sitka spruce in Holberg, B.C., according to Guinness World Records. Former mayor Gaby Wickstrom called the fire a heart-breaking act of vandalism in a social media post Thursday before adding in a subsequent post:"There’s always a chance it could have spontaneously combusted. It would be the best-case scenario of [a] bad situation."
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