Guizhou Enacts Emergency Response for Wild Blaze

What’s new: Southwest China’s Guizhou Province has initiated a Level III emergency response after wildfires broke out in the mountainous region, local authorities said.

This is the third-highest level in China’s four-tier emergency response system for disasters such as forest fires, with Level I being the most severe.

Two people were killed while fighting a blaze in Guizhou’s Pu’an County on Tuesday. The fire had been contained by Wednesday afternoon, officials said.