Hazy day in Palembang on September 18, 2019// CNN
Blood red skies in Indonesian province of Jambi have caught people's attention in a recent video that surfaced on twitter. A widespread of rainforest fires from across the country has burned more than 800,000 acres of ecologically-rich land during the recent weeks.
In the videos and images found on social media, we get a glimpse of the eerie, red colored haze that has swept through villages and highways.
Hundreds of residents have evacuated, and more than 9,000 personnel have been sent to battle the flame. Malaysian government officials have distributed around two million face masks to attempt to help with the poor air quality.
But these fires just don’t come out of no where. So what caused them?
Humans.
During the summer, slash and burn tequniques are used to clear the land. This same twqunique is the one that caused the fires in the Amazon rainforest. This practice is a crime, and there have been at least 185 people arrested across the six provinces hit by the fires. Corporations are also under investigation.
Thankfully, 52 planes were conducting water bombing operations in attempt to stop the forest fires.
The casualties coming from forest fires are more serious than what people believe. There is massive amount of pollution being released into the atmosphere, which is not helping the difficulties we are having with climate change.
Children are prone to be affected worse by the poor air conditions since their immune system is not fully developed.
Hopefully, these fires will be under control as quickly as they ignited, that way families can return to their homes and children back to schools.
The fire has recently sparked attention in the U.S, but there is also an interest in the fires that erupted int the Amazon Rain Forest, known as the earth's lungs.
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