BMKG forecasts potential forest, land fires after transition season
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Photo Archive. Personnel from Village Guidance Officer (Babinsa) and Pekanbaru Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) extinguished peatland fires in Rumbai Sub-district of Pekanbaru City in Riau on Monday (3/1/2021). (ANTARA FOTO/FB Anggoro) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) has forecast likely expansion of dry areas following the transition season and urged the government in these prone regions to stay alert to potential forest and land fires. (Local governments) should be vigilant because during the period of late April and early May, dry areas will tend to increase and become more evenly distributed, Agie Wandala Putra, Head of BMKG s Weather Early Warning Sub-Division, stated here on Friday.
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