The brigade of the PLA 82nd Group Army sets up lookout posts at intervals on March 31.Once spotting flames, they will call the fire-fighting team to extinguish the fire. Photo by Yang Lei
By Li Yongping and Wang Ruitao
CHANGZHI, Apr. 4 (ChinaMil) -- A forest fire broke out in Qinyuan county, northern China’s Shanxi Province on March 29. The firefighting operation is still under way. In order to effectively compress the space of the fire, a firebreak, about eight kilometers long and nearly one kilometer wide, was opened in Ruzhuang Village of Chishiqiao Township in the northern section of the fire field on Tuesday afternoon. No casualties were reported in the fire.
The Chinese PLA Central Theater Command sent more troops to Qinyuan county in order to help local fire departments to bring the fire under control. The PLA officers and soldiers participating in the rescue have been fighting in the front line over the past few days. The following pictures showed how PLA officers and soldiers battled the fire.
Soldiers of the PLA 82nd Group Army use firefighting equipment such as iron brooms, dry powder fire extinguisher bombs and iron shovel to control small-scale fires in the mission area from the evening of March 31 to the early morning of April 1. Photo by Guo Erqiang