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Wildfire guts reserved forest
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, April 15 2020:
Massive wildfire gutted acres of greenery under Gwarok Reserved Forest, Thoubal district today.
The fire was noticed at around 2 pm on Saram Ching.
Locals and fire tenders fought for about 3 hours to put out the fire.
The fire suspected to have started by unknown miscreants gutted areas of Saram village and Uyal Cheirao Ching.
As soon as the Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC) Uyal got news of the fire, they alerted Forest Department, Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Committee (WBCC) Manipur and Fire Service.
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Forest Department personnel led by Deputy Ranger/BO Yairipok M Biren and members of WBCC Manipur including secretary Romes Ningthoujam rushed to the site first and assisted the villagers in controlling the fire.
Thoubal and Yairipok Fire Service dispatched two fire tenders and fought for nearly 3 hours to put out the fire, said sources.
It may be noted that there have been many incidents of wildfire during the lockdown period.
Recently, acres of forest areas were burnt near Uyok Ching (Kakching Garden).
The fire burnt for days.
Started by some miscreants near Heitroipokpi Lok near Phunal Sangphum area on April 11, the fire was intially deemed to have been extinguished by the locals, but it persisted and engulfed Nongchubi Ching some kilometres from the site where the fire originated.
The fire was finally put out at around 1 am of April 14 .
There have been at least five such incidents at Langol Reserved Forest area a few weeks ago.
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