The Impact Of El Nino, 1,476 Hectares In Babel Burned Due To Drought
Illustration of forest and land fires (ANTARA)

PANGKALPINANG - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province stated that 1,476.86 hectares of land and forest in Babel were burned, as a result of the dryness and climate change of El Nino.

"The most forest and land fires (karhutla) in East Belitung are 533.49 hectares with 256 forest and land fires," said Head of BPBD for the Province of the Babel Islands, Mikron Antariksa, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, October 6.

He said an area of 1,476.86 hectares of forest and land fires with 791 fires were spread over 533.49 hectares in East Belitung with 256 incidents, Belitung 360.95 hectares with 188 fire incidents.

Furthermore, forest and land fires in West Bangka 247.99 hectares with 145 incidents, Central Bangka 161.14 hectares with 73 incidents, Pangkalpinang 72.77 hectares with 63 incidents, South Bangka 64.52 hectares with 52 incidents and Regency Bangka 36 hectares with 14 forest and land fires.

"Currently, almost every day there are forest and land fires, due to the hot weather conditions caused by El Nino," he said.

According to him, the forest and land fires in the Babylon Islands averaged under five hectares, except for Central Bangka, which on Tuesday (3/10/2023) there was a forest and land fires in the 55 hectares of the Koba Protected Forest area which took two days to extinguish, because it was peatlands.

"Alhamdulillah, yesterday red-Thursday (5/10), the fire in the protected forest area of Central Bangka was successfully extinguished," he said.

He stated that currently the weather conditions are very hot, so that the bush on the dried land will not be burned by itself.

"This land was not burned, because of the heat of this weather. For example, the Waste Disposal Site (TPA) at the Belitung Seberang Juru caught fire on its own, due to the presence of methane gas exploding due to high air temperatures which eventually caused a fire at the TPA," he said.


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