REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The government will address the forest fire problems through land and aerial operations. The land operation will involve among others, military officers, police, forest fire brigade unit, and civilian security personnel.
The aerial operation will include water bombing from air and weather modification or artificial rain technologies. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) would rent the Be-200 amphibian plane and the Kamov helicopter from Russia for water bombing purposes, BNPB spokesman Sutopo stated recently.
The NOAA Satellite detected 458 hotspots of forest and plantation fires across Sumatra on Tuesday afternoon. Most of the hotspots were located in northern Sumatra with a total of 430 hotspots, Hendra Suwarta, the head of the Medan meteorological, climatology and geophysics agency (BMKG)'s data and information service, stated on Wednesday.
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