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September 15, 2015
FIRE STORM
Indonesia water-bombs forest fires to fight haze
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 14, 2015
Helicopters Monday water-bombed raging forest fires that have cloaked parts of Indonesia in thick haze and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia. Fourteen helicopters were dumping water on blazes on western Sumatra island and the Indonesian part of Borneo island and "cloud-seeding", which involves using chemicals to induce rain, the country's disaster agency said. Authorities had struggled last week to start such operations as the haze was so thick that ... read more
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