But blue gum eucalyptus trees don't just burn, they explode, according to the article. The trees helped fuel the deadly Oakland fire in 1991, which burned more than 3,000 homes and killed 25 people.

Blue gum trees helped spread deadly flames during the catastrophic East Bay hills fire in 1991. When they aren't in flames, they are shading out other tree species and sucking up all the available ...

‘After the 1849 Gold Rush, transpacific shipping was booming. Seeds of the Australian Blue Gum Eucalyptus from Southern Victoria and Tasmania were imported in San Francisco in 1853; by 1860 the ...

Parents of a Tustin woman killed in 2011 when a 10-ton, 70-foot blue gum eucalyptus tree crushed her car each received $550,000 in a settlement agreement with the city of Newport Beach, officials ...

NEWPORT BEACH – Crews today began removing 100 blue gum eucalyptus trees from a street on the Costa Mesa-Newport Beach border where a 29-year-old Tustin woman was killed when one fell on her car ...

Mark Primack, in his excellent column of Nov. 27, “Blue Gum trees a disaster in waiting,” pointed out the problem of “fire fueled by human inertia … We ignore [the problem], hoping it will ...

Saratoga residents will not have to pay the city to cut down blue gum eucalyptus trees for the next 2-1/2 months. The trees did about $250,000 in reported damage during last month’s storms ...

The simple answer is that koalas do eat blue gum eucalyptus and so theoretically, it could survive in the tree for a time. In reality, there are a lot more issues to consider.

Wave goodbye to irritating midges and mosquitoes this summer with a 'beautiful' eucalyptus tree that no only promises to keep insects away but is also on sale for 30% less right now ...