More than 2,000 people have been mobilized to fight a fire, which has been burning across 130 hectares of forest for 20 hours in east China's Fujian Province, Xinhua quoted a forestry official as saying on Friday. Police officers, firemen and villagers are trying to put out the flames in Shanxian County, about 270 km from the provincial capital Fuzhou, said Lu Yueliang, deputy forestry chief of the province. Lu said the firefighters were withdrawn from the site at 10 p.m. for safety reasons. "They resumed working at 4 a.m. and expect to extinguish the flames Friday morning." The fire, which broke out at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday, cut power supplies to the Sanming section of two railway lines and delayed 26 trains until 9 p.m. and temporarily blocked traffic on two highways. No casualties have been reported.
