Fires break out in Berbak National Park

Fires break out in Berbak National Park

JAMBI, Jambi: Dozens of hot spots were detected by satellite on
Saturday in Berbak National Park, here, signifying that areas of
the national park were ablaze.

However, no data was available on the scale of the fires.

Frans Tandipau, secretary of the Forest Fire Management Center
at Jambi provincial administration, said the center had deployed
fire fighters to extinguish the fires. Some 1,000 hectares of the
national park was destroyed by fire in the past month. The
national park has an area of 162,700 hectares. -- JP