Forest Fire in Chiang Mai Extinguished
A major forest fire in Thailand’s Chiang Mai has been extinguished but the province and others in the north are still chocked with smog pollution as over 400 of hotspots are detected.
A major forest fire in Thailand’s Chiang Mai has been extinguished but the province and others in the north are still chocked with smog pollution as over 400 of hotspots are detected.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is offering help to the families of three forest firefighters who died while trying to contain wildfires.
Related officials are still battling a forest fire at Phu Tok Mountain, a popular tourist destination in the Chiang Khan district of Loei province.
Chiang Mai’s 20 districts have been shrouded by smog from forest fires as the level of ultra-fine particulate matter has risen sharply.
Officials managed to contain the forest fire at the pine forest in the Phu Kradueng national park after overnight operations.
Haze from forest fires in Indonesia affected many areas in the South.
More concerned officials have been dispatched to contain forest fires in Chiang Mai.
The government is seriously trying to reduce hotspots and forest fires as their damage is great this year.
Deputy Prime Minister has ordered all-out measures to curb forest fires, which mainly caused haze in the northern region.
The dust particles in Lampang soared to hazardous levels of over 110 microgrammes per cubic metre of air.
Firefighters and volunteers are working to contain forest fire while the province has been hit by air pollution for several days.