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The onset of the annual burning season in South-East Asia has prompted significant alarm over its detrimental effects on air quality and public health.
KOTA KINABALU: Farm owners and smallholders who deliberately set fires to clear land, are believed to be one of the causes of open burning incidents in seven locations in Sabah, according to the Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Nor Hisham Mohammad.
KUALA NERUS: Open burning for land clearing purposes, even for legal reasons, poses the risk of creating a “protection vacuum” for the Fire and Rescue Department.
KOTA KINABALU: Members of the public are reminded not to conduct open burning or any activities that can lead to this as the state is currently experiencing a dry spell and forest and bush fires are growing rampant.
The sheriff’s office in Boulder, Colorado launched an online portal to track open burns. After the Marshall Fire and the NCAR Fire, smoke can make people anxious.