As of the morning of August 26, all visible flames in forests of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality had been extinguished with no casualties or significant infrastructure loss, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

Several forest fires had broken out in Beibei, Banan, Dazu, Changshou and Jiangjin Districts due to the extremely dry and hot weather since August 9.

More than 14,000 rescuers as well over 3,100 firefighting implements and 10 helicopters were deployed to fight the fire.