Sundarbans Fire: Fire doused after 30 hours
File photo: Collected
Partha Chakrabortty, Bagerhat
Partha Chakrabortty, Bagerhat
After 30 hours of frantic efforts, the fire at the Sundarban s (East Forest Range) Sharankhola Range was extinguished around 5:00pm yesterday.
The fire service officials, forest department members, community patrol group (CPG) volunteers, and locals jointly conducted operations to douse the fire that broke out on Monday noon.
The authorities, however, were yet to confirm the damage caused by the fire.
According to locals, at least five acres of forest were destroyed in the Daser Varani area inside the forest because of the fire.
On February 8 this year, three decimals of forest land were gutted by another fire in Chandpai Ranch of the forest. In the last 20 years, at least 25 cases of fire were reported in the Sundarban.
Bagerhat Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 05 May 2021 02:26 AM BdST
Updated: 05 May 2021 02:26 AM BdST
The fire that broke out in the Daser Bharani Patrol Camp area under Sharonkhola range in the Sundarbans has finally been doused after 30 hours. );
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It came completely under control on Tuesday afternoon before burning down trees in 1.31 acres of forest land, said Mohammad Belayet Hossain, a divisional forest officer.
The Forest Department and the Fire Service and Civil Defence could not determine the cause behind the fire incident. The Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel trying to put out a fire in the Daser Bharani Patrol Camp area under the Sundarbans mangrove forest’s Sharonkhola range on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
Bagerhat Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 03 May 2021 09:38 PM BdST
Updated: 03 May 2021 09:38 PM BdST
A fire is raging through a vast swathe of the Sundarbans around three months after the last incident of fire in the world’s largest mangrove forest. );
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The fire broke out at Daser Bharani patrol point of Sharankhola range in Sundarbans East Division around 11am on Monday.
The Forest Department could not specify the intensity of the fire. Locals said the fire spread to an area of about two acres.
Fire trucks of the Fire Service and Civil Defence could not reach the scene in the dense forest.
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A forest fire being doused with water in the Sundarbans. Frequency of such manmade fires is on the rise in the world’s largest mangrove forest. Photo: Collected
Incidents of ever-increasing manmade forest fires at the Sundarbans are endangering the unique ecology that thrives in the world s largest mangrove forest the shield against natural calamities in the country s south-western coast.
Between March 2002 and February 2021, there have been 24 forest fires in the eastern part of the Sundarbans alone. The fires burned down various trees, grasses and herbs on 71 acres and 70 decimals of land in the forest.