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Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

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In the week ending March 2, Indonesian peatland NGO Pantau Gambut said 34 hotspots, possibly fires, were identified by satellite on peatlands in Riau province. Emergency services in the province have been concentrated to the east of the port city of Dumai, where a fire started in the concession of a palm oil company.

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Sumatra firefighters on alert as burning heralds start of Riau dry season

PEKANBARU, Indonesia — Emergency workers and community firefighters battled isolated fires in Sumatra’s Riau province in late February as the onset of the region’s first dry season of 2024 sparked wildfires in some peatland areas. “The water source is pretty far away and the surrounding area is very dry,” said Joko Susilo, the head of the emergency and logistics section at the disaster management agency in Dumai, a port city on the Malacca Strai…

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