"It smelled like smoke. As I asked my son who is a firefighter what he thought that smell was, he walked toward the area where the smoke was coming from. He yelled for us to come over to where he was. I looked and there before us was a tree, BURNING. No reason at all in our minds. The trunk was burning. Suddenly as I came closer to this tree, it flamed higher catching nearby bush a fire. My daughter ran to the car to get our cell phone, calling the fire department.
They came put out the fire and left. As they were leaving I asked "What would have caused this?". They had no idea. Nothing seemed to give them an answer. As they left one of the fireman said, "Once in a great while this tree will just start burning." We come up here and put it out. No reason has ever been explained."