Indonesia: First Rains Bring Relief to Haze-Hit Sumatra and Kalimantan
Patchy showers and salt cloud seeding are easing haze and fire risks as forecasters say the rainy season will arrive unevenly.
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'I feel like crying': First rains bring relief to haze-hit Sumatra and Kalimantan as rainy season nears
JAKARTA: When heavy rain finally swept across parts of Palembang on the afternoon of Oct 24, many residents of the South Sumatran capital did not run for cover. They reached for their phones.
The rain that poured down on several areas in the country was greeted with joy and prostrations of gratitude by the forest and land fire fighting volunteers.
PETALING JAYA – Volunteers fighting forest and land fires performed a prostration of gratitude as heavy rain drenched several areas in South Kalimantan, Indonesia yesterday evening. Even more touching, some of them were still holding fire hoses as they prostrated together after about four months of struggling to put out the fires in the area. Through a sharing by Threads user, @diarialma, several volunteers ...
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