Flames on one side of Lushan Mountain extinguished

By Huang Zhiling | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-04-01 15:45
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A helicopter drops water in a bid to extinguish a forest fire in Xichang, Sichuan province, on April 1, 2020. The fire, which broke out on Monday afternoon, has killed 18 firefighters and a guide. [Photo by Liu Zhongjun/chinadaily.com.cn]

Flames on one side of Lushan Mountain were put out at 1:25 pm on Wednesday, according to the Xichang Forest Fire Joint Prevention Headquarters.

At 6 am, 2,899 firefighters assembled around the mountain in Xichang, capital of the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan province, to launch a general attack on the flames from four different sides.

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