An example for you: If it is 12 A.M in Eastern Standard Time, then it will be 5 A.M in Greenwich Mean Time. During the summer months, the time change results in a four hour difference between the two since the Eastern zone moves an hour forward in the spring.
The Great Black Dragon Fire -- 18 million acres. In 1987 the Great Black Dragon Fire burned three million acres in Northern China and 15 million acres in Siberia, making it the world's largest forest fire in recorded history.
The Denver Post library has compiled the following list of the top 35 largest wildfires in Colorado history in terms of how many acres were burned. 1  1. 2002 Hayman â 137,760 acres; 2,500 firefighters; firefighting cost $39 million; five firefighter deaths in transit.