Joint Teams Deployed To Mount Gede To Anticipate Fires Widespread

Joint officers tried to extinguish the fire that burned the land in Suryakancana Square, Gunung Gede, Monday (18/9/2023). (ANTARA/Ahmad Fikri). (Ahmad Fikri)

The joint team was dispatched to anticipate the widespread land fires that occurred in the Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGGP), precisely in the Suryakancana Square.

Head of the TNGGP Center, Sapto Aji Prabowo, said that the location of the fire that was monitored from CCTV on Monday evening had been successfully extinguished by the first team that was sent first, but in other locations there was a puff of smoke.

"Resilients to the police were also deployed to assist the fire fighting process in the Suryakencana Square area. Meanwhile, the first team had already been sent to monitor and carry out emergency handling," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, September 18.

Meanwhile, the second team, which was dispatched Monday evening, brought a number of back pump equipment to make it easier to extinguish the area or cool so that the fire did not spread because the conditions of the savanna community in Surken dried up.

His party has coordinated with the Cianjur Police who are ready to assist additional personnel when needed, but the monitoring from the front CCTV at the starting point has been extinguished, but there is still a spark from the rear of the CCTV that is still on.

"The joint team consisting of TNGGP officers, influencers, volunteers and police officers as well as local residents, have left for the location to help the officers who were sent to the location early," said Sapto.

The Cianjur Police Chief, AKBP Aszhari Kurniawan, said that his party had assigned members to help extinguish the fire that occurred in the Suryakancana Square of Mount Gede, even dozens of other personnel were prepared when needed.

"For Pacet Police personnel, they have been sent to the location along with TNGGP officers and volunteers, in case we have prepared other members to depart when needed additional personnel," he said.

The Center for Mount Gede Pangrango National Park (TNGGP) Cianjur, is still investigating the exact cause of the burning of the savanna field in the Surayakancancana Square of Mount Gede, covering an area of 3 hectares, Monday (18/9).

"It can be seen from the CCTV installed with a puff of smoke that occurred in the Surayakancancana Square desert which is better known by climbers as Surken. Currently, officers are heading to the location to extinguish the fire and find out for sure the cause of the fire," said Head of the TNGGP Center, Sapto Aji Prabowo.

He explained that Surken is usually used as a place to build tents and climbers' rest areas before reaching the top of Mount Gede, but when it was seen there was a fire in a quiet location from climbers and no one had yet set up a tent.