Cause of 10-hectare Land Fire in Karimun Riau Islands Remains a Mystery
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21 March 2024 11:40 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Amid reports of numerous wet hydrometeorological disasters in many provinces, especially in Central Java, forest and land fires were detected in Karimun Regency, Riau Islands Province. More than 10.25 hectares of were on fire on March 17.
According to the Data, Information and Communication Center of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), the fire started at around 08:00 on Sunday morning in Pasir Panjang village, West Meral district, Karimun. No casualties were reported in the incident.
"Authorities are still investigating the fire, which has been successfully extinguished," BNPB Data Center chief Abdul Muhari said in a written statement on Wednesday, March 20.
"Based on the images from the Terra or Aqua satellite monitoring, there were no hot spots in the Riau Islands today," Muhari said on March 20.
Between 2018 and 2023, the largest land fire was in 2019, when 494 hectares of land burned. In 2023, the total area burned was about 3.82 hectares.
IRSYAN HASYIM (CONTRIBUTOR)
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