A fire broke out in a forest, in the area, Silaut District, Pesisir Selatan Regency, West Sumatra. It is increasingly widespread and officers have difficulty extinguishing hotspots. Thursday (25/05/2023).

You can see the flames in the peat forest, expanding and getting bigger. The blaze was seen starting at 3 hotspots, now it has grown to 7 points. So that the area is filled with white as soon as possible.

Officers from BPBD, Pesisir Selatan District, Provincial KARHUTALA and Patents district as well as assistance from PT. Sapta Sentosa Jaya which is adjacent to the fire area.

The fire is thought to have been set on fire by the land owner. Will open about 100 hectares of oil palm land. However, the cause of the fire is not yet known.

The joint task force is still struggling to extinguish the fire in the field. Where at this time the task force has difficulty extinguishing it due to water difficulties and access to the forest because the fire is in a peat forest.

Head of UPTD KPHP Pesisir Selatan Handrio Fadli said the West Sumatra Province Task Force officer. Controlling forest fires, in the Silaut District, Pesisir Selatan.

"Based on monitoring from the application from the ministry of environment and shots, there are several hotspots with red status with an initial 3 points but for today 8 points," he said

Currently the task force is trying to extinguish one of the hotspots. Overlays did not form fires but there were several hotspots on the land.

"The task force was assisted by the plantation, it happened to be next to the location of the forest fire," he explained.