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MONGOLIA-FOREST-FIRE
Forest fire battle continues in Inner Mongolia
HOHHOT, June 4, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – A total of 4,320 police and fire
fighters have been sent to battle forest fires in north China’s Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region, local fire authorities said Monday.
A fire, which broke out on Saturday in a forest in the northern area of
the Greater Hinggan Mountains, had been extinguished as of Sunday night.
However, another fire in a national nature reserve that was discovered on
Friday is still burning, and has spread to neighboring Heilongjiang Province
due to intermittent gales.
Ongoing high temperatures and drought have increased the risk of forest
fires in the mountains. Helicopters and large fire fighting equipment have
been deployed.
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