1987 Daxing'anling wildfire
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The 1987 Daxing'anling wildfire (大兴安岭特大森林火灾), also known as the May 6 fire (5·6大火) was a major wildfire
that began in the northeast Daxing'anling Prefecture
Heilongjiang
People's Republic of China
on May 6, 1987. The burning lasted almost a month, when it was finally stopped on June 2, 1987. The fire covered about 10000 square kilometres (2,471,051.6 acre) of which 6500 square kilometres was forestry. About 266 people were wounded and 211 died in the sea of fire with 50,000 left homeless.
Wildfire
A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...
that began in the northeast Daxing'anling Prefecture
Daxing'anling Prefecture
Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, officially Da Hinggan Ling Diqu also known as Daxing'anling Prefecture is the northernmost prefecture-level division in all of China, located in Heilongjiang Province. Its area is and has a population of 520,000, as of 2004. It is named after the Greater Khingan ...
Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang
For the river known in Mandarin as Heilong Jiang, see Amur River' is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. "Heilongjiang" literally means Black Dragon River, which is the Chinese name for the Amur. The one-character abbreviation is 黑...
People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
on May 6, 1987. The burning lasted almost a month, when it was finally stopped on June 2, 1987. The fire covered about 10000 square kilometres (2,471,051.6 acre) of which 6500 square kilometres was forestry. About 266 people were wounded and 211 died in the sea of fire with 50,000 left homeless.