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'Truly Scared': Blazes Outpace Firefighters in Indonesian Borneo

Summary by Phys.org
Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on the island of Borneo cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze.

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“We are exhausted. Sometimes we fight the fires until dawn. Sometimes we don’t sleep,” says Sampe Ritonga, fire chief of the Sintang district in West Kalimantan. Firefighters are waging a perilous battle, with limited resources, against blazes attributed in part to a more intense than normal El Niño weather phenomenon, which is drying out Southeast Asia. Experts also point to climate change, decades of deforestation, and slash-and-burn agricultu…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Phys.org broke the news in Douglas, United Kingdom on Monday, September 7, 2026.
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