Bangkok, Thailand
CNN
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Firefighters in central Thailand have spent days battling a wildfire that has engulfed two mountains and a part of a forest park.
The hearth began on the Khao Chaplu mountain in Nakhon Nayok province, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Bangkok.
Authorities mentioned the blaze ignited throughout a lightning storm on Tuesday and powerful winds whipped up the fireplace so it shortly unfold throughout the mountain.
On Wednesday, the fireplace reignited and unfold to neighboring Khao Laem mountain, in keeping with Thailand’s Division of Catastrophe Prevention and Mitigation.
Video from Nakhon Nayok reveals an enormous blaze masking the mountain at night time, the fireplace glowing crimson at nighttime and smoke billowing in plumes.
By Thursday, the blaze had unfold to Khao Nang Dam, a forest park, as catastrophe groups and the military fought to extinguish the flames.
The catastrophe prevention division mentioned in a Fb submit Thursday that three helicopters had been dispatched to extinguish the fireplace, dropping greater than 150,000 liters of water over the blaze.
Areas close to the fireplace had been declared catastrophe zones and firebreaks constructed to cease it spreading into residential areas, the Thai Prime Minister’s workplace mentioned in an announcement Thursday.
In the meantime, hearth vehicles and fire-fighting tools had been introduced in on standby on the foot of the mountains in case the fireplace unfold to close by villages, the catastrophe prevention division mentioned.
By 9 a.m. native time on Friday, the wildfire had subsided, in keeping with the Prime Minister’s workplace.
“There have been no pockets of fireside noticed. The smoke has continued billowing out from two to 3 spots at Ta Baek Mountain,” the assertion mentioned.
Nonetheless, it warned that robust winds might reignite the fireplace.
Although authorities imagine a lightning storm began the blaze, “the true reason for the incident can be investigated,” the Prime Minister’s workplace mentioned.
