Entering the dry season, forest and land fires reoccur in Riau Province, Indonesia.

Footage filmed on Wednesday (February 26) in Pekanbaru shows emergency crews trying to extinguish burning shrubs with makeshift equipment while waiting for help from firefighters and the Riau Province Regional Disaster Management Agency.

Indonesian farmers often use fire to clear land during the dry season, but they can rage out of control.

Riau has declared the emergency alert status for land and forest fires to warn residents of a possible haze crisis.

Data from the Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency says there are five hotspots in Riau.

Entering the dry season, forest and land fires reoccur in Riau Province, Indonesia.

Officers again tried to extinguish fires that burned shrubs with makeshift equipment while waiting for help from firefighters and the Riau Province Regional Disaster Management Agency when land fires occurred in Pekanbaru, Riau, Wednesday (2/26/2020)

The joint officers continued to extinguish the fire at the location of the land fire so that the fire that caused the haze disaster did not become widespread
One of them is peatland fires on Jalan Nelayan, extinguishing officers have difficulty in extinguishing efforts due to the difficulty of getting to the burned location
Data from the Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics Agency (2/26/2020) in Riau, there are five hotspots in Riau with 70% confidence.
Riau Provincial Government has determined the status of Forest and Land Fire Emergency Preparedness until October 2020, so that the Haze from the impact of forest and land fires does not re-occur in Riau