Terik Musim Kemarau, Pemkot Minta Pemilik Lahan Tidur Di Kupang Siaga Antisipasi Kebakaran

Officers extinguished a land fire in Pelintung Village, Dumai City, Riau, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (ANTARA-Aswaddy Hamid)

NTT - Kupang City Government in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) highlighted the land for living or sleeping owned by its citizens in the middle of the dryer dryer dry season this year.

Acting Mayor of Kupang George Melkianus Hadjoh asked residents who own the land to guard, even to anticipate the occurrence of fires by not cleaning them by burning them.

"The weather conditions in Kupang City in the last few weeks have felt so hot that they are very prone to fires, especially in sleeping areas that are not processed as agricultural land by residents," he said in Kupang, NTT, Friday, June 9, which was confiscated by Antara.

George added that this was related to an early warning from the BMKG regarding the existence of two climate disturbance phenomena, namely the El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) that hit Indonesia in June 2023.

He said that in the hot weather that hit Kupang City, it was certainly very prone to fires, especially in empty lands belonging to residents that were not processed.

He hopes that if clearing the land not by burning and not burning garbage, it can also trigger a fire.

Over the past two months, there have been six cases of land fires in Kupang City with the location of the incident on vacant land such as in the areas of Oesapa, Penfui, Kelapa Lima and Fatukoa.

"We also ask residents not to throw away cigarette butts that are still burning in fire-prone places, so that land fires and residential areas do not occur," said George Melkianus Hadjoh.

He has asked the Fire Extinguishing Service to always be on standby during the dry season in anticipation of cases of fires, both land fires and residents' houses due to the very hot increase in air temperature.