Oregon wildland fire supervisor Dana Turner suffered serious injuries last week when a crew was cutting down a 70-foot noble fir that had been destined to be the state Capitol’s Christmas tree.

Something went awry during the cutting on Nov. 17, in what a friend described as a “freak accident” in an online fundraising campaign. The post said a Life Flight aircraft flew Turner to a hospital with a crushed femur, lower back trauma and facial injuries and reported that she had undergone surgery to begin her recovery.

The Oregon Department of Forestry said Monday that Turner is doing well and it will provide her with whatever support it can.

The forestry department declined to comment on what went wrong and said it is beginning an investigation into the incident. It said the tree was cut by

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