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By ANTON L. DELGADO, SETH BORENSTEIN and MELINA WALLING, Associated Press

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — A fire spread through pavilions being used for U.N. climate talks in Brazil and prompted evacuations Thursday on the next-to-last day of the conference but nobody was hurt, officials said.

Organizers said the fire was under control and caused no injuries, but fire officials ordered the evacuation of the entire site for the conference, known as COP30, and it wasn’t clear when the talks would resume.

Brazil’s Tourism Minister Celso Sabino told journalists at the scene that the fire started near the China Pavilion, which was among several pavilions set up for events on the sidelines of the climate talks.

The fire quickly spread to neighboring pavilio

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