For The Safety Of Children, Mrs. Maimunah In Banjarbaru Leaves Her House When Surrounded By Smoke Due To Forest And Land Fires

The Karhutla Task Force distributed several boxes of masks to residents affected by the smoke fog after extinguishing the hotspots, in Landasan Ulin Selatan Village, Liang Anggang/ANTARA District

BANJARBARU - One family left the house due to the siege of forest and land fires (karhutla) in RT/RW 03/01, Landasan Ulin Selatan Village, Liang Anggang District, Banjarbaru City, South Kalimantan. A housewife named Maimunah (50) admitted that she fled from the house with her children due to shortness of breath. " “ At around 16.00 WITA, there was a lot of smoke in front of me, visibility was no longer visible," said Maimunah as quoted by Antara, Monday, August 14. He also admitted that he was resigned to leaving the house to save his children, no matter if the flames devoured the house. “ I saw nothing more, I just wanted to save my child, ” he said. He said that during the middle of the day from a long distance, smoke had been seen rising in the capital city of South Kalimantan. At exactly 15.30 WITA, the position of the victim's house with a source of fire was right across the street, at that time the strong winds caused the fire to spread to the victim's yard, which was about seven meters away and finally devoured a pile of wood in front of his house. According to ANTARA's observation, about four houses with neighbors were quite close to the forest and land fires and many land conditions were burned. Meanwhile, the Banjarbaru BPBD Karhutla Task Force, Alvian, said that there were quite a lot of hotspots since noon. He revealed that in the afternoon at around 15:40 WITA a mother screamed for help at the forest and land fire location, she admitted that she was quite panicked looking for a source of sound and then trying to calm a mother who was a resident at the crime scene. "If the officers are late, some of the surrounding houses can be burned down," said Alvian. Alvian at the location also distributed several boxes of masks to four houses affected by the flames and surrounded by smoke.

As of 20.00 WITA, the hotspots had not been completely extinguished with the smoke rising high around the sky in Banjarbaru City.