At a critical moment, there's a fire in the cornfield! Nearly five hundred acres!

At 18:55 p.m. on October 20, a fire broke out in the village of Dajialei in Hohhot City and Shebi Cliff Township, Linger County, with a total area of more than 400 mu and dozens of acres of corn burned.
According to villagers' recollections, the fire spread rapidly, spreading several hundred meters away in a few minutes, the fire spread more than 10 meters high, the scene accumulated more than 200 villagers simply can not get close to the sea of fire, only 6 loaders and 9 sprinklers to fight the fire.
"I've never seen such a big fire" learned from local villagers that the fire was located in the eastern part of the Huto Highway and the northern part of the village of Diliso in the village of Shebi Cliff and the southern field of the village of Dajia lai.
the burned cornfields are north-south, east-west, each piece is about dozens of acres.
Several corn stalks were burned to black ash, some corn stalks were burned unevenly, some unreaped corn was charred to varying degrees, and some of the burned leaves were hung baldly on corn stalks.
affected villagers are stepping up their sorting of burned corn.
Du surnamed villager told reporters: "When the fire occurred, my corn has not been harvested, this morning after checking found that more than a dozen acres of cornfields were burned."
" Du surnamed villagers looked sadly at the burned-out corn said: "Now can only be as soon as possible not fully burned corn picking, harvesting, accounting for how much loss."
"" has never seen such a big fire, and now in retrospect it feels terrible.
saw my corn burned, but there was no way, because I didn't fall asleep all night yesterday.
" Mr. Song sighed in his own cornfield around, helpless to say, if not to deal with these burned corn, once and the soil and to a piece will be more difficult to sort, then the loss will be more serious.
90 mu of unreaped corn was burned according to the measurement, the total fire area of 494.83 mu, of which 91.9 mu of corn was burned, farmed forage 21.6 mu, the remaining 404.93 mu for corn straw.
the fire caused no casualties.
said the villagers had been insured against agriculture, but the fire was not covered by compensation.
Lu Kai, deputy director of the village of Dajia Lai, told the Morning Post that corn was burned and sold at no price, the fire affected villagers at least half of the production, the current village committee statistics 9 families affected by the loss, a total of 91.9 mu of corn, according to this year's sales price estimates, the amount of loss per acre about 1500 yuan, the initial estimate of the total loss of more than 100,000 yuan.
understood that the fire and the situation of the affected people, the village committee has reported to the township and county-level related departments.
the cause of the fire, the local police have been involved, is still under investigation.