Bonfire builders in Larne have abandoned their world record attempt and will instead use funds raised to support a young girl undergoing cancer treatment.
The move by the group behind the Craigyhill bonfire comes after Guinness World Records said they have no plans to send an adjudicator to the Eleventh Night pyre.
More than £9,000 had been raised to support the world record attempt through a crowd-funding drive.
Work has already begun on the bonfire, which is just a short distance from where 36-year-old John Steele fell to his death while helping to build a bonfire in the Antiville area last year.
A bonfire at the same site in Craigyhill last year reached a height of around 202ft - which organisers claim is an unofficial world record.
They say last year's height was not officially recognised as the cost of bringing a Guinness World Record adjudicator to the Co Antrim bonfire site was too high.
But soon after Guinness World Records confirmed that it would not be sending an adjudicator, the bonfire builders said they had decided to use their fundraising efforts to help local girl, Pia Grace, who undergoing cancer treatment.
A spokesperson for the bonfire committee, identified only as David, told Belfast Live: "On Friday we heard about the heartbroken story of Pia Grace and the struggles that she has been going through with cancer treatment and it had a big impact on us.
"One of our builders recently lost a young family member to cancer and we know just how tough it will be for them. So we decided that instead of raising money to have a world record confirmed by Guinness we would be better doing something to support Pia Grace and her family at this difficult time."
He said that bonfire builders planned to wear t-shirts featuring the link to the Justgiving page set up for the family.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that the builders of the Craigyhill bonfire have so spent almost £30,000 on pallets for this year's Eleventh Night spectacle.
David Murray dismissed suggestions that the hundreds of pallets used to build the towering structure had been stolen.
He told the Sunday World he had receipts to prove £29,000 had been spent on pallets.
