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EDITORIAL: Fire must bring respect for nature
A fire at Yushan National Park, allegedly caused by a government official, shows again how consequential indifference to safety among hikers can be.
Since Sunday last week, when the blaze began reportedly because of a group of five hikers nearly 65 hectares of forest at an altitude of more than 3,000m has been destroyed.
After National Communications Commission senior specialist Joseph Chiao (喬建中) wrote about the incident on Facebook, the commission apologized and the post on a hikers’ page was amended.
Chiao wrote that he was preparing breakfast at a campground at about 2am on Sunday last week when he knocked over a “campfire” later edited to say “gas stove.” He called firefighters at about 4am after trying but failing to extinguish the blaze.
Compensation would be demanded from a hiker after he allegedly sparked an ongoing blaze that has consumed 65 hectares of forest at Yushan National Park, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said yesterday.
The fire was reported on Sunday last week, when about 1.5 hectares of forest were on fire, and has spread to bushland at higher altitudes.
COA Minister Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) wrote on Facebook that the council intends to hold the people involved responsible, “regardless of station or rank,” citing Article 53 of the Forestry Act (森林法).
Accidentally setting a forest fire is punishable by up to two years in prison, a
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