All efforts to strengthen forest fires and peatland and in Sumatra, especially in Riau leaves many stories, one of them is the use of the way or methods of ‘for earth’ for peatland determination carried out by a number of experts from the ‘Working On Fire’ company (WOF) which is set from South Africa. Providing the professional power of the deeding of Africa is part of all efforts that have been carried out by the government and elements of the society to suspend the hazel disaster.
The government has deployed seven helicopters and aircraft to do water bombing, one Casa aircraft to do artificial rains, and also perform land operations by lowering 2,100 personnel both from TNI-Polri, BPBD Volunteer, PP Pol, and Manggala Agni to extinguish fires through the ground path.
The team of South Africa is borne by APP Sinarmas is indeed experienced in handling fires in extreme weather in African forests. For that reason, the team of 65 people began to work extinguishing fires in the Sugihan Water region, Ogan Komering Ilir, Sumsel. After completion of the determination in peatland at the location that is considered no longer there is a second burning land the team will move to another flammable dystrick.
An expert power cleans itself before making out in the Black Lebong area, Tulung Selapan, Ogan Komering Ilering, South Sumatra
Experts tilt shoes before doing the outlining in the Black Lebong area, Tulung Selapan, Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra
Since 05:30 WIB a number of WOF members began to prepare oneself to do outages, ranging from self-cleaning, washing clothes and sunbathing, tilting cementgkilap shoes may, breakfast morning, dividing logistics (roti) to eat during the day. They work from 07:30 to 17:00 in the afternoon.
When conducting their deeds introduced the ‘the earth’ method that was used to effectively even according to the National Agency of Disaster Management (BNPB) method “the earth” was the most effective as far as to extinguish forest fires and lands, even uncovered will likely be adopted the technique.
The method of the Earth is actually simple enough, the extinguisher uses a 1.5 meter long pipe with a diameter of about 15 cm which flows water into the soil. The water is mixed with chemical liquids so it is very effective to extinguish coal in peatland. Initially, this expert selects the location that will be injected using geothermal camera to get temperature condition data.
Experts rushed to make an outpering in the Black Lebong area, Tulung Selapan, Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra
the experts ran in the middle of a rain manuran when doing the deletion in the Black Lebong area, Tulung Selapan, Ogan Komering, South Sumatra, Sumatra, Sumatran is located in South Sumatra
From the selected location of an average of 120 degrees Celsius up to 240 degrees, then selected a 180 degree temperature location for percentage. Then, the pipe is inserted into the ground, then put the water, no longer the sound out of the water vapor sign ground appears. Then after being checked, the temperature is already down to 50 degrees, meaning the fire under the ground is already extinguished.
Text and Photos: Nova Wahyudi
