A helicopter from the Indian Air Force helps put out forest fires in the Nainital area. CMDhami is in charge of the operations. Forest officials and the army work together. In Naini Lake, the boating stopped. Since November, there have been 575 fire incidents in Uttarakhand, totaling Rs 14 lakh.
DEHRADUN: Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Saturday that an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter was sent to assist in putting out the fierce forest fires in the Nainital region of Uttarakhand. When the flames extended to the High Court colony in the Pines region on Friday, the situation had become worse.
The MI-17 aircraft collected water from Bhimtal Lake using a Bambi Bucket and then sprayed it over the burning woods at Pines, Bhumiadhar, Jyolikot, Narayan Nagar, Bhawali, Ramgarh, and Mukteshwar, among other parts of the district.
Boating in Naini Lake is forbidden by the district government as a precaution. According to Chandrashekhar Joshi, the divisional forest officer of Nainital, 40 employees from Manora Range and two forest rangers have been dispatched to put out the fire.
Chief Minister Dhami gave the assurance that every attempt was being made to contain the fires and that they would be put out quickly. In order to evaluate the situation, he said that he would be meeting with forest officials in Haldwani later that day.
In a separate incident, three people were detained on Friday in Rudraprayag for allegedly trying to set woods on fire. Authorities claim that 33.34 hectares of forest land were destroyed by 31 fresh forest fire incidents that were recorded around the state on Friday.
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Since November 1 of last year, there have been 575 recorded forest fire events in Uttarakhand. These occurrences have affected 689.89 hectares of forest area and have cost the state more than Rs 14 million.
On Friday, the fire near Nainital worsened, endangering the people living in High Court Colony and hindering transportation in the vicinity. Personnel from the Army are participating in the attempts to contain the fire in addition to those from the forest department. Anil Joshi, an assistant registrar of the Uttarakhand high court and a resident of The Pines, reported that on Friday, an old, abandoned home near The Pines caught fire. Despite the fire’s close proximity to the structures, the High Court Colony was unharmed.
