It was the worst fire that China suffered in three centuries and one of the most destructive in history. The Black Dragon Fire was born in May 1987 in the northern province of Heilongjiang, the former Manchuria, and spread to the Soviet Union. When it was suffocated, a month later, it had calcined 10,000 square kilometers, two thirds of them of forest, killed 211 people and left 50,000 homeless.Keep reading....
It was the worst fire that China suffered in three centuries and one of the most destructive in history. The Black Dragon Fire was born in May 1987 in the northern province of Heilongjiang, the former Manchuria, and spread to the Soviet Union. When it was suffocated, a month later, it had calcined 10,000 square kilometers, two thirds of them of forest, killed 211 people and left 50,000 homeless.Keep reading....