Burnt Land Area In Nagan Raya Increases To 18.5 Hectares

BPBD officers carried out efforts to extinguish forest and land fires at one point in Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh Province, Wednesday (21/6/2023). (PHOTO BETWEEN/HO-Doc BPBD Nagan Raya)

NAGAN RAYA - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh noted that the area of land that had been burned in the area as of Wednesday (21/6) night had reached 18.5 hectares.

"One of the causes of the expansion of land fires because they are influenced by the wind, and the burning land is peatland," said Head of BPBD Nagan Raya, Aceh Province, Irfanda Rinadi, quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, June 21.

He said that the land, which is currently still on fire and has not been successfully extinguished, is located in Suak Puntong Village, Kuala Pesisir District, Nagan Raya Regency.

The area of land burned in the area is estimated at four hectares.

Efforts to extinguish land fires that occurred in a number of areas in Nagan Raya Regency were also caused by the lack of water sources around the fire site, so that extinguishing efforts became hampered.

Apart from Suak Puntong, Kuala Pesisir District, he said, the fire that occurred in the Pulo Kruet area, Darul Makmur District, Nagan Raya Regency has now been successfully extinguished by around 99 percent of the total land previously burned to four hectares.

Meanwhile, land fires that occurred in the Kayee Uno Village area, Darul Makmur District, Nagan Raya Regency, only 80 percent of the total burned land area reached 6.5 hectares.

In addition, two locations where land fires previously occurred were in Lawa Batu Village, Kuala District with a burned area of about three hectares, the fire has now been extinguished.

Then in Alue ie Mameh, Suka Makmue District, Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh with a burned area of about one hectare has also been successfully extinguished.