Authorities brought vehicles to the scene of a forest fire in Phong Phu ward.

Earlier, at nearly 11:00 a.m., the authorities received a report of a forest fire from local residents, occurring at Lot 166, Section 1, Sub-area 1, Phong Thanh Commune, Phong Dien Town (old). Immediately afterwards, the Regional Forest Protection Department mobilized vehicles, machinery and more than 200 people from the forest rangers, police, militia, local youth... to quickly approach the scene to deploy fire fighting measures.

After approaching the scene, the forces determined that the fire occurred in the planted forest area of many households with an area of nearly 30 hectares belonging to the 661 project. Due to the hot and windy weather, at this time, the forces divided their tasks to create a fire barrier; at the same time, bring in machinery, extinguish the fire, and prevent the fire from spreading to other areas. After more than 2 hours of firefighting efforts, the fire was controlled and extinguished.

The forest fire has been brought under control.

To ensure safety, after the forest fire was extinguished, in the afternoon of the same day, local authorities assigned people to stand guard, to prevent the risk of the fire flaring up again...

Currently, the cause of this forest fire is being verified and investigated by authorities.

Song Minh

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