On Sunday afternoon, a forest fire broke out at Mount Bijia in the suburb of Kunming, capital city of Yunnan Province, and spread quickly with the help of strong winds. The Heilongjiang hand cannon was excavated during the 1970s in Banlachengzi, a village in Acheng District, Heilongjiang province, China. Heilongjiang (黑龙江; formerly romanized as Heilungkiang) is a province in Northeast China.The province is bordered by Jilin to the south and Inner Mongolia to the west. TIME takes a look at wildfires that have raged in years pastIn 1987, a wildfire that originated in China's Daxing'anling Mountains devastated the country's northeastern Heilongjiang province. Nearly 1,000 fire fighters and other personnel went to the site, where several hundred hectares of forest has been razed.
Although both countries were affected heavily by the fire, China and the Soviet Union responded very differently. The fire season in Australia is far from over, and already it is shaping up to be one of the most intense in the country’s history. The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm. In Russia the river is called the Amur River. The fire, which started May 6, killed over 200 people and left more than 50,000 homeless before it was finally extinguished on June 2. China, despite its shortage of advanced firefighting equipment, sent over 60,000 soldiers and workers to try and put out the fire.In the aftermath, China punished individuals for causing the fire; the aforementioned 18-year-old worker, along with his employer, were jailed. The effect that the fire had on the environment in the region generated new found concern and speculation about the future about the forest's ecology. It weighs 3.55 kg (7.83 pounds) and is 34 centimeters (13.4 inches) long.
It also shares a border with Russia (Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai and Zabaykalsky Krai) to the north and east.The capital and the largest city of the province is Harbin. Though forest fires were fairly common in the area, this one was far more destructive than any of its predecessors blazing for nearly a month and covering 2.4 million acres. Exploding gunpowder bombs were used as early as 1126 during the Jingkang Incident, when the Jurchen Jin dynasty besieged the Song capital of Kaifeng. The fire originated in the coniferous Da Hinggan Forests in the Greater Khingan Range, a mountain range in northeastern China. There is no record of a fire of this magnitude in the recorded history of 24 dynasties in China. In 1987, a wildfire that originated in China's Daxing'anling Mountains devastated the country's northeastern Heilongjiang province. Hot dry air and high winds have been fueling wildfires in Arizona, pushing them towards the New Mexico border. In addition, a local fire chief who saved his house and left the rest of his town to burn was sentenced to four years in prison.The lessons learned from the Black Dragon fire helped to improve response to wildfires throughout the world, as well as demonstrating the impact that governments can have on the environment. In 1987, the area surrounding the Amur River in the region had been unusually hot and was experiencing a drought, leading to an overabundance of parched vegetation.
Heilongjiang and Jilin were regions that fell under the control of the various Manchu tribes. The forestry minister was fired. The ancestor of the cannon and hand cannon is … On the Russian side another 3 wildfires may have impacted up to 15 million acres.