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'Truly Scared': Blazes Outpace Firefighters in Indonesian Borneo
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AlKhaleej Today‘Truly scared’: Indonesian firefighters struggle to contain Borneo blazes as haze chokes communities
PONTIANAK, Sept 7 — Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a...
·Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
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“We are exhausted. Sometimes we fight the fires until dawn. Sometimes we don’t sleep,” says Sampe Ritonga, fire chief of the Sintang district in West Kalimantan. Firefighters are waging a perilous battle, with limited resources, against blazes attributed in part to a more intense than normal El Niño weather phenomenon, which is drying out Southeast Asia. Experts also point to climate change, decades of deforestation, and slash-and-burn agricultu…
·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Total News Sources4
Leaning Left0Leaning Right1Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Center
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources are Center
67% Center
C 67%
R 33%
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