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They are stuff. almost nothing can kill them. >> but climate change is killing that. shrinking the giant sequoias' footprint. >> a giant sequoia that was first weakened by drought was then subject to impacts by the bark beetle which then further weakened the tree and potentially made it more susceptible to fire. >> reporter: said to be the fifth largest tree in the entire world, it's lived more than 3,000 years. and yet, we are seeing wildfire is threatening these giant sequoias more than ever before. >> the castle fire was a wake-up call. an estimated 7,500 to 10,600 trees were destroyed in t...

>> it was devastating, heartbreaking. everything had been incinerated. it was a field of the world's largest burned-up toothpicks. >> reporter: after decades of suppressing forest fire, other trees and brush have grown rampantly around the sequoias. >> the fires that used to burn every five to ten years in the sierra would just keep down the competition, and reduce the fuel naturally. >> reporter: on land owned by the save the redwoods league, we hiked out to see just how deadly the castle fire was here. >> for us to see 10 to 14% of the total of giant sequoias alive, killed in one year, in on...

Prompted a red-flag warning, meaning conditions are favorable for the spread of wildfires. the warning affects about 6 million people, and it includes that dixie fire which has already burned an incredible nearly a million acres. crews are also battling a fire that has reached sequoia national park. it's an area where some of the world's largest trees have stood for thousands of years. cnn's stephanie elam is covering that part of the story. >> reporter: from their size, general sherman is 275 feet tall. holy cow. to their longevity. >> before ancient rome, before christ, i mean, these trees w...

Groves. >> it was devastating, heart breaking. everything had been incinerated. it was a field of the world's largest burned up toothpicks. >> after decades of suppressing forest fire, other trees and brush have grown rampantly around the have a kwoi yas? >> the fires that used to burn every five or ten years would keep down the competition and reduce the fuel naturally. >> on land owned by the save the redwoods league, we hiked out to see how deadly the castle fire was here. >> for us to see 10% to 14% of the total of sequoias alive killed in one fire in one year, there's nothing to compare i...

It's lived more than 3,000 years, and yet we're seeing that wildfire is threatening these giant sequoias more than ever before. >> the cassel fire was a wake-up call. an estimated 7,500 to 10,600 trees were destroyed in that one fire alone. >> reporter: started by lightning in august 2020, the cassel fire was part of the sequoia complex that burned more than 174,000 acres, scorching several sequoia groves. >> it was devastating, heartbreaking. everything had been incinerated. it was a field of the world's largest burned-up toothpicks. >> reporter: after decades of suppressing forest fire, othe...