Three Hectares Of Land In Central Aceh Burned

BANDA ACEH - 3 hectares of land in two villages in the highlands of Central Aceh Regency, Aceh, was reportedly burned.

"The land fires occurred in two villages in Bebesen District, Central Aceh Regency," said BPBA Chief Executive Ilyas in a statement from the Aceh Data and Information Center quoted by Antara, Friday, August 6.

He explained that the residents' land fires occurred on Friday, at around 14.00 WIB and 14.50 WIB in two locations, namely Kampung Bewang Village, Bintang District and Kampung Mongal Village, Bebesen District.

The impact of the incident, said Ilyas, was that the area of land burned in Bewang Village was about one hectare and the area of land burned in Mongal Village was about two hectares.

"The chronology of the incident is still under investigation by the authorities. There are no reports of casualties and fatalities in this incident," he said.

According to him, the Central Aceh BPBD deployed a firefighting unit (damkar) to Bewang Village to extinguish the fire. Meanwhile, two fire brigade units were deployed to the forest and land fires location in the village of Mongal.

Meanwhile, the Class I Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Sultan Iskandar Muda Aceh Besar stated that fashionable sensors from the Tera, Aqua and Suomi NPP satellites detected nine hot spots spread across a number of districts/cities, on Friday.

"The results of monitoring hotspots on August 6, 2021 from 00.00-16.00 WIB show that there are nine hotspots in the Aceh region, with a moderate level of confidence," said BMKG Class I Data and Information Coordinator Sultan Iskandar Muda Aceh Besar Zakaria Ahmad.

The hotspots were detected at one point each in Lembah Seulawah District, Aceh Besar, Pananggalan, Subulussalam, Muara Tiga, Pidie, Trumon, South Aceh and five hotspots in Central Aceh, namely one Atu Lintang point and four points in Silihnara District.

Zakaria explained that the hotspots with a moderate level of confidence meant that it was not certain that the hotspots were hotspots.

Nevertheless, continued Zakaria, residents are still asked to be aware of the potential for forest and land fires. Residents are prohibited from clearing plantation land by burning.

"If the hot spots that appear are already red, the confidence level is already in the high category, we estimate that the hotspots are already in the form of fires," he said.