Forest and Land Fires on Rupat Island, Bengkalis

News24xx.com - The forest and land fires occurred on Wednesday, July 01, 2020 yesterday, at that time there was a hotspot and was in the area of the Limited Production Forest shrub border of PT. SRL and PT. Priatama precisely in the village of Tanjung Kapal.

The Head of the Bengkalis Regional Disaster Management Agency Tajul Mudaris said that the fire had burnt approximately 2 hectares of land and the position of the hotspot was far in the middle of the forest and difficult to reach by road.

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"At the moment the blackout is being carried out by the Regional Disaster Management Agency team, the Indonesian National Armed Forces, the Indonesian National Police and the companies that are there, still doing the blackout, while at the location of strong winds and hot weather and far from settlements," Tajul Mudaris said on Friday July 03, 2020.