4 months ago
1
With wood occurrence raging successful the Valley of Flowers, a UNESCO practice site, for the past 5 days, the Uttarakhand Disaster Management Department has sought the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) assistance to douse the inferno.
Situated astatine an altitude of 3,300 metres supra oversea level successful the Chamoli territory of Uttarakhand, the Valley of Flowers has astir 600 exotic assortment of flowers.
According to the officials of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the occurrence broke retired successful the forests of Painkhanda nether the Valley of Flowers scope of the Nanda Devi National Park. Due to the hard terrain and the deficiency of entree routes, it has go hard for firefighters to scope the area, they said.
“Under these circumstances, the State has sought enactment from the IAF,” said Uttarakhand Disaster Management Secretary Vinod Kumar Suman.
The State authorities are not leaving immoderate chromatic unturned. “The territory medication is making each efforts. The authorities person conducted a chopper survey and if necessary, plans person been made to determination h2o from helicopters into the affected country to extinguish the fire,” Chamoli District Magistrate Gaurav Kumar said.
Unusual occurrence
Experts expressed daze implicit the incident, arsenic wood fires are mostly reported from February to June and usually highest successful May and June. “Almost nary oregon nominal snowfall successful the hills mightiness beryllium the crushed for the incidents of wood fires being reported successful aboriginal January. The snowfall keeps the aboveground bedewed and prevents specified incidents,” an SDRF authoritative said.
Data from the Forest Survey of India stated that Uttarakhand received precocious fig of wood occurrence alerts successful December 2025. The State received 1,153 wood occurrence alerts successful 2025, which has destroyed hundreds of hectares of wood land.
