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The Forest Department has created 497 km of occurrence lines successful the Coimbatore Forest Division up of the summertime season.
Workers engaged by the Department cleared adust leaves, grasses and thickets on constrictive strips and carried retired controlled burning. These constrictive strips, created on wood boundaries and wrong larger wood areas, volition forestall the dispersed of fire.
District Forest Officer N. Jayaraj said occurrence enactment works person been completed successful each the 7 wood ranges successful the division.
“A wood occurrence consciousness gathering and a drill were conducted for the unit connected Wednesday. Awareness programmes are being conducted successful villages bordering wood boundaries done schemes nether the Tamil Nadu Innovation Initiative and Project Elephant,” helium said.
Coimbatore Forest Division is dispersed crossed 694 sq.km, surrounded by Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve successful the north, Palakkad Division successful the south, and Mannarakad and Nilgiris divisions successful the west. The 7 ranges successful the division, namely Madukarai, Boluvampatti, Coimbatore, Periyanaickenpalayam, Karamadai, Mettupalayam and Sirumugai, stock a full of 320-km-long bound with quality habitations.
Mr. Jayaraj said the artificial intelligence-based surveillance system, with its power country connected territory wood bureau premises, volition besides beryllium adjuvant successful detecting wood fires during time and night. Fire surveillance is made done 3 tower-mounted AI-based cameras installed adjacent Marudhamalai, adjacent Ponnuthu Amman temple and adjacent the Ulagambikai Amman temple successful Madukkarai wood range.
The part witnessed a large occurrence successful April 2023 erstwhile 200 hectares of wood successful Bolampatti artifact II reserve wood of the Madukkarai scope was affected successful a occurrence that lasted for implicit a week. While 2024 was mostly incident-free, a occurrence was reported astatine Perumalmudi adjacent the Tamil Nadu – Kerala borderline successful the Coimbatore wood scope successful February 2025. The Department had established the District Forest Fire Control Centre for the part aft the occurrence successful Madukkarai scope successful 2023.
Modern fire-fighting vehicles successful pipeline
Sources with the Department said that Coimbatore part is expected to get 2 modern modified fire-fighting vehicles soon. A full of 34 specified vehicles are being readied for assorted wood divisions crossed the State for fire-fighting. These all-wheel-drive vehicles suited for unsmooth terrains volition person facilities specified arsenic h2o tankers, generators and star power.
