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The Mongolian army fired rainmaking shells into the sky Tuesday, triggering a 6-inch snowfall that put out a huge fire threatening to engulf the capital of Ulan Bator. The snowfall extinguished the blaze 19 miles from Ulan Bator, but fires elsewhere that have devastated Mongolia’s forests and pasturelands continued to rage, officials said. “The snowfall started 20 minutes after we shot the first bullets,” said an army officer returning from the Terelz nature reserve where the shells were fired before daybreak. “The fire spread to in the night, but the snow put it out,” according to the mayor of Terelz, Mongolia’s most popular tourist destination, 25 miles from Ulan Bator.
