6,000 Chinese Firefighters Fight Blaze
China has 6,000 firefighters on a fire in the Yunnan Province (from CRIEnglish.com).
Some 6,000 fire fighters are battling a forest fire that is just 20 kilometers from the capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Kunming.
Spokesman for the State Forestry Administration (SFA), Cao Qingyao, said the fire, which has been burning for seven days, has scorched nearly 666.67 hectares of forest in a suburb of the city of Anning. No casualties have been reported.
The official said that while the western front of the fire has been brought under control, it has spread with amazing speed to the eastern part of the forest, which is only 20 kilometers from Kunming.
The fire fighters are cutting a 53-km-long, 50-meter-wide fire break to prevent the fire from spreading to the capital.
A quick conversion on 666 hectares is about 1,600 acres. While not a small fire, it doesn't seem big enough to warrant 6,000 firefighters. I guess it all depends on the fuels they are working in, but the article doesn't say specifically what the fuels are.
Posted April 6, 2006 10:02 AM ·
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