Firefighters wrap the historic General Sherman Tree, estimated to be around 2,300 to 2,700 years old, with fire-proof blankets in Sequoia National Park, California. The world's biggest trees were getting aluminum cladding Thursday in an effort to protect them from huge blazes tearing through the drought-stricken western United States. The 275-foot (83-meter) General Sherman Tree — the largest in the world — is part of this grove of ancient sequoias. Firefighters were also clearing brush and pre-positioning engines among the 2,000 ancient trees in California's Sequoia National Park, incident commanders said. 📸: National Park Service Handout(via @gettyimages) | #sequoianationalpark #generalsherman #generalshermantree #wildfires #westwildfires #firefighters #nationalparks