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List of fires in China; 0–9. 2015 Russian wildfires; D. 2010 Dawu Fire; 1987 Black Dragon fire; G. 2010 Guangxi Wildfire; P. 1996 Pat Sin Leng wildfire
The fire destroyed roughly one-third of Slave Lake and cost $1.8 billion. 2011: 4,011,709 acres (1,623,481 ha) 2011 Texas wildfires: Texas: Wildfires began in November 2010 and continued to rage due to a severe drought that lasted 271 months. 47.3% of all acreage burned in the United States in 2011 was burned in Texas.
Anshan hotel fire: 28, 12: A hotel on the top floor of a department store caught fire. [20] 16 June 2002, Haidian district, Beijing: Lanjisu internet cafe fire: 25, 13: Disgruntled youngsters set fire to a crowded two-story internet cafe in Beijing's university district after being banned. This was the deadliest fire in Beijing in more than 50 ...
Floods and mudslides destroyed village homes and part of a highway in China's southwestern province of Sichuan on Saturday, killing at least two people and leaving 17 missing in two incidents ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -Torrential rain has killed 15 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, media reported on Wednesday, as President Xi Jinping called for greater efforts to protect ...
On 24 November 2022, a fire broke out in a residential high-rise apartment building in a Uyghur-majority neighborhood in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.Local authorities reported ten people, all Uyghurs, were dead and an additional nine were injured, [4] [1] [2] [3] though some raised concerns of underreporting.
Sixteen people were killed after a fire broke out at a shopping mall in southwest China on Wednesday, according to Chinese state media.. Dramatic images showed a huge column of black smoke ...
Along with the area's locals, over one hundred firefighters and a Mi-26 helicopter were employed to suppress the fire. After the fire was suppressed, the drought continued to worsen in the southern China region, especially in Guangxi. [4] [5] Two months after the fire, torrential rain caused flash floods and landslides in the same area. [5] [6]