Aizawl, April 25: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga has sought help from the Indian Air Force (IAF) as well as the locals in dousing the major forest fire in Lunglei district and adjoining areas on Sunday, officials said.
Officials in Aizawl said that the Chief Minister Zoramthanga has asked the Chief Secretary Lalnunmawia Chuaungo to talk to the IAF authority to urgently deploy helicopters to douse the forest fire which also rapidly spread in the adjoining localities and small towns Lunglei and adjacent district in southern Mizoram.
Lunglei district Deputy Commissioner Kulothungan A (Repeat Kulothungan A) said that the fire was mostly under control by the state’s fire fighters and disaster management personnel accompanied by the locals but the wind taking the fire to newer areas.
In the mid February Army troops successfully doused a major forest fire in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley district along the China border.
In January, the Army, Indian Air Force, National and State Disaster Response Force, local volunteers and administration jointly doused a major wildfire in the famous Dzukou Valley on Nagaland-Manipur borders after two weeks of battle.
