LONGWOOD, Fla. — Investigators are ruling out arson after one of the world’s oldest cypress trees caught fire and collapsed in central Florida.<\/p>\n
Seminole County Fire Rescue spokesman Steve Wright says the 118-foot-tall bald cypress tree named “The Senator” burned for several hours early Monday. Wright says a 20-foot section of the top fell first and then rest of the tree collapsed.<\/p>\n
The county parks department says ring samples showed the tree was roughly 3,500 years old.<\/p>\n
The tree was named for a 1920s state senator who donated what is now Big Tree Park to the county.<\/p>\n
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