”The village of Bhattadi is at risk,” said local Laxmi Prasad Koirala. ”Fire is breaking out in the cedar, juniper and herbs of the Kailash Community Forest. The fire has not been brought under control.”
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A fire broke out in an apple orchard in Bhattadi, Tilagufa-9, in the district, burning 130 apple trees and 80 walnut trees belonging to four farmers.
Local Jitendra Bahadur Shahi said that the fire that broke out on the banks of the Tila River on Thursday morning reached the apple orchard of Bhattadi through the Galjepari bank and burned apples, walnuts and 25 fields of dry grass (dry grass), according to local Jitendra Bahadur Shahi.
The fire has damaged the apple orchard of Jubitha in Tilagufa-6. Jitendra said that 60 of his apple trees, 35 toothed walnut trees, 20 apple trees, 15 walnut trees, 5 fields of dry grass (dry grass) worth 10,000 were burned, 25 apple trees and 20 walnut trees of Bharat Bahadur Shahi, 25 apple trees and 12 walnut trees of Dilip Shahi were burned.
Locals estimate that the fire caused damage worth 1.5 million rupees.
The fire broke out on Thursday morning across Galjepari and damaged the apple orchard located near the village. The locals brought the fire under control only on Thursday evening.
‘The village of Bhattadi is at risk,’ said local Laxmi Prasad Koirala, ‘A fire is raging in the cedar, pine and herbs of the Kailash Community Forest. The fire has not been brought under control.’ According to him, he speculated that the fire may have started when a person who had gone fishing in the Tila River caught fire while warming himself.
Narendra Bahadur Rokaya, ward chairman of Tilagufa-9, said that the fire is raging in the surrounding forest after cutting through Bhattadi village. Although the fire that broke out in the apple orchard of a resident of Jubitha in a place called Sim below Bhattadi village has been brought under control, the forest is still burning, said Kalikot Police Chief Him Bahadur Khatri. He said that after hearing the news of the fire in the Kailash Community Forest in the afternoon, two policemen under the command of ASI Min Bahadur Pariyar from the police post Khallagad and three policemen under the leadership of Senior Police Constable Nawaraj Shahi from the police post Galje went to the scene.
In Kalikot, fires caused by carelessness have been causing great human and material losses every year.
