Heatwave triggers more forest fire in Himachal
When we are celebrating Environment day on Sunday many places are almost to like a oven in Himachal Pradesh venting exterme heatwave condition triggered number of Forest fire and render heavy loss to the nature and property. Una along Punjab Himachal border was sizzled to 44.4 degree Celsius which .6 less than highest temperature of May 17, 2022. Dhauakuna in Sirmaur was 42 degrees, Hamirpur and Berthin 40 , Kangra and Bilaspur 39.5, Nahan 38.8, Chamba 38.4, Solan & Dharmshala 37.4, Dalhousie 27, Kalpa (Kinnaur) 25 Kuffri 22.7 and Keylong 21.7 degrees respectively.According to fire and forest officials currently 16 places are under blazes where forest infernos are venting out clouds of smokes and heat wave in cool climate of state.
In past two days, as many as 16 incident of house and Forest fire which burnt around 71.50 hectares of forest area. Forest spokesperson said that till Saturday forest wealth tune to Rs 4.98 lakh gutted due to fire as 10 fire incidents have occurred in Bilaspur. Fire broke out at Kamiyana Chedi in Shimla. Four fire incidents have been reported in Dharamsala, one in Kullu and one in Shimla. The high land area of Shimla district having quality forest of Deodar and Oak are also in blaze . Report says that forest fire have been damage 26 hectare new plantation and around 45 hectare grasslands are burnt causing shortage of fooder to cattle. There are as many as 1915 registered incident of fire in various places of state mostly forest fire which destroyed forest wealth of more than Rs 4.17 crore in the state. In the fire season about 15714.88 hectares of forest area was affected by various types of fires including 3070 hectares had dense forests.Indian Met office did not predicted rain or snow for next three days upto June 8 which causing concern in fire and department. The fire is not merely gutting the forest but it harming the wildlife immensely possing threat to the environment. The atmosphere around has become quite hazy due to the smoke rising from the forests.
