Inhil Police Chief and Joint Team Extinguish Land Fires at Tembilahan Hulu Citizens' Coconut Farm

News24xx.com - Indragiri Hilir (Inhil) police chief together with the joint team again struggled to extinguish the fires that struck the land on the people's coconut plantations, Saturday 12 October 2019.

The fire broke out on the border of Parit 5, Paruna Street, Pekan Thursday Village and Trench 6, Tembilahan Barat Village, Tembilahan Hulu District, Indragiri Hilir Regency.

Inhil Police Chief AKBP Indra Duaman, who led the blackout team, said it had deployed 26 joint personnel consisting of members of Inhil Police Station and Tembilahan Hulu Police Station.

"An appeal to the public to be more careful and responsive in dealing with future issues related to Karlahut," said the police chief.

Meanwhile, Head of Inhil BPBD, Yuspik, who also went down during the outage, said that his party brought 4 units of portable fire engines and 30 personnel to put out the fire that burned the peatlands.

"This is collaboration between the police and the TNI and the people who continue to strive to extinguish and cool down on burning land," he said.

One witness who is also the owner of a burning garden, Dian (32) tells, the fire was only known to be enlarged at night and he tried to try to extinguish the fire. "I made a limit so that the fire did not spread, but the fire was too large so that I sought the help of other residents," he said.

The blackout and cooling led by Inhil Police Chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Indra Duaman this time also appeared to be followed by Head of Criminal Investigation Unit AKP Indra Lamhot Sihombing, Head of Traffic Then AKP Rosna Meilani, Head of Tembilahan Hulu AKP Rhino Handoyo, Danramil 01 represented by Pelda Agus and surrounding communities.