20 Hectares Of Mount Ciremai National Park Area Burned

Illustration of forest fires in Riau (ANTARA)

The forest and land fires (karhutla) hit the forest area of Mount Ciremai National Park (TNGC), Friday, September 29. The area of the forest that caught fire was in Padapherang Village, Sindangwangi District, Majalengka Regency, West Java. It is suspected that the forest and land fires that occurred in TNGC began with the burning of land carried out by one of the residents. The strong winds quickly caused the fire to spread into the TNGC forest. "Initially we received reports from the burning of the residents' land, but it spread to TNGC," said Pusdalops PB Majalengka Abdul Rohim. Rohim said, it was wide while the forest burned in TNGC reached 20 hectares. "The total while 20 hectares of forest burned in TNGC, we are still trying to extinguish it," he said. The success of the road is difficult, the cause of the slow extinguishing of the fire that burned TNGC.

"There are very difficulties, especially the terrain, so our members have difficulty extinguishing it. While we are trying to extinguish it manually using a jet shutter," said Rohim. Until now, the fire that hit TNGC is still on, joint officers are still trying to extinguish it.