Forest Fire Emergency In Riau

Forest and land fires in Kampar District, Riau Province, Indonesia, on July 26, 2019. Firefighters find it difficult to extinguish fires because the burned land is on a peatland whose fire is in the depth of one to two meters on the ground. From the records of the Riau Province Disaster Management Agency, there are 3,818 hectares of land that has been burned since 2019 to this day. As a result, air quality in some cities in Riau Province declined. The Riau Health Service urges the public to use masks for activities outside the home. Indonesia deploys thousands as forest fire rages in Riau province, Sumatra island, which is close to neighboring countries Singapore and Malaysia. Blazes in Sumatra in 2015 were among the worst on record and sent clouds of toxic smog floating across Southeast Asia, leading large numbers to fall ill.