Parts Of The Fire In The Bromo Padam Area, Officers Start Cooling Tuesday Morning

Joint officers carried out cooling using water tanker trucks to water the former forest and land fires in the Mount Bromo area, Probolinggo Regency, Monday (11/9/2023). (ANTARA)

ProBOLINGGO - Joint officers carried out a cooling process after the blackout of forest and land fires (karhutla) in the Mount Bromo area which is the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (TNBTS) area in Probolinggo Regency, East Java. "We help officers to cool down in the Mount Bromo area so that there will be no more burning coal until Monday night," said Head of the Probolinggo Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Oemar Syarief quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, September 12.Fight of members of the Probolinggo Disaster Management Team together with TNBTS, East Java BPBD, Tagana, TNI, Polri, and volunteers carry out manual monitoring and cooling in the Bromo Mountain area.." Cooling using geodesics and watering using water tanks so that new hotspots do not arise in the sea area of Mount Bromo sand and its surroundings," said Oemar Syarief. Information received by BPBD Probolinggo, he continued, there are still hotspots in Jemplang Block, Ngadas Village, Malang Regency, which is also a potential for the onset of new hotspots. The TNBTS Center has closed the national park area in total since September 10, 2023 at 19.00 WIB until a time limit that has not yet been determined for the smoothness of the blackout process. The closure of access is enforced for all entrances, namely Trisula trials in Malang Regency, Wonoktri in Pasuruan Regency, Cemorphawang in Probolinggo Regency, and Senduro in Lumajang Regency. "Access is only opened for the people of Ranupani Village in Lumajang Regency and Ngadas Village community in Malang Regency," said Head of the Business Administration Section of TNBTS Septi Eka Wardhani.

He explained that people who will cross the Malang-Lumajang-Malang route through Poncokusumo in Malang and Senduro Regencies in Lumajang Regency are advised to find alternative routes. "I urge the public, visitors and tourism services to participate in protecting the TNBTS area from forest fires by not lighting fires and the like for safety, security, and mutual comfort," he said.