Seattle Times: Fire crews call them cat faces, deep holes that flames have burned into the trunks of the centuries-old Sitka spruce and hemlock growing here in the Queets River valley.
The trees may smolder for days spouting smoke from their bases before finally toppling to the ground with a thunderous crash that sounds like a bomb has gone off.
They are falling down regularly, said Dave Felsen, a firefighter from Klamath Falls, Ore. You can hear cracking and you try to move, but its so thick in there...