A massive fire in the mountains of western China's Sichuan Province has killed 30 firefighters and other, due a change of wind while they battled the blaze.
According to China's Ministry of Emergency Management and the military,... among the dead were 27 firefighters and three local residents recruited to help fight the inferno.
Nearly 700 people were battling the fire which erupted on Saturday,... at some 38-hundred meters above sea level.
China has been battling forest fires in various parts of the country in recent weeks ,... fed by dry weather and high winds.