ORIENTATION CAMP ON
FOREST FIRE HELD IN BALANGIR
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To remain alert and be prepared to fight forest fire a one-day
orientation camp of forest guards, foresters and VSS members of Hari Shankar
forest range, lathor forest range and Patnagarh forest range was organised at
Hari Shankar on Wednesday.
“We are getting daily input from satellite from Bhubaneswar office
and fire dousing squad is immediately pressed into service when an incident
occurs,” said a forest official here.
Among others, DFO Rashmi Ranjan Naik, scribe Sudhir Mishra, ACF NK
Jaysingh, Patnagarh range officer Banmali Sahu and Harishankar range officer
Dinabandhu Meher spoke on different aspects of forest fire and how to tackle
it. They sought the cooperation of people to tackle fire properly.
Fire officials of Khaprakhol demonstrated as to how to extinguish
fire.
VSS members stressed on better cooperation from forest officials,
re-organisation of VSS in some places, more publicity on how to tackle forest
fire in village area and involvement of local youths. So far 126 forest
fire incidents have been reported in Balangir district, said forest
sources.
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