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The largest fire in an armory: In 295 AD, a fire broke out in the Luoyang armory, and all the equipment for 200,000 troops was burned. The largest fire in a temple: In February 534 AD, a fire broke out in the Yongning Temple in Luoyang, which burned for three months and destroyed all the temple houses. The largest fire in a city: In 1201 AD, a fire broke out in Hangzhou, which spread to 58,097 houses and more than 10 miles of inner and outer walls of the city, and the number of deaths was incalculable. The largest fire in a gunpowder depot: In May 1626 AD, gunpowder caught fire and exploded in the Beijing Dry Tea Factory, which collapsed 10,900 houses and killed more than 3,000 people. The largest arson case: On October 6, 1860, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the Old Summer Palace, and from the 17th to the 19th, they set fire to more than 100 buildings, covering an area of 160,000 square meters. The fire with the highest number of deaths: The fire in the Guangzhou Theater in 1945, which killed 1,670 people. The largest forest fire: On May 6, 1987, a forest fire broke out in Daxinganling, my country, burning an area of 101 hectares, burning 853,000 cubic meters of wood, 614,000 square meters of houses, and leaving more than 50,000 people homeless.

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