The fire broke out on the evening of April 26, in the Keg Duoc area of To Thuan hamlet, Nui To commune, Tri Ton district, An Giang, accompanied by many loud explosions, causing panic among people in the area.
On the evening of April 26, Mr. Nguyen Van Be Tam, Chairman of Tri Ton District People’s Committee, said that at the place where the fire occurred, the authorities recorded many loud explosions.
There is a big fire on Co To Mountain (Photo: NV).
“The fire started from dry grass on the mountain. The fire area has no forest, mainly rocks and trees. Some loud explosions are suspected to be from leftover bombs, so the authorities are approaching cautiously.” scene,” Mr. Be Tam said.
Tri Ton district leaders said that military forces, forest rangers and localities are coordinating to carry out remote fire fighting. However, due to the situation in the fire area with many high slopes, large rocks, lots of smoke, explosive rocks and rocks falling from above and downhill, hindering firefighting work, the functional forces were very cautious to ensure the firefighting work. Fire effectively and safely.
Fire on Co To Mountain on the evening of April 26 (Photo: CTV).
According to a report from the Tri Ton District Military Command, the locality will withdraw the firefighting force to ensure safety, and will continue firefighting work at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, April 27.
At noon on April 26, Tri Ton district’s Rehearsal Steering Committee recently organized a drill for the civil defense area, performing the task of preventing and fighting forest fires, and practicing handling forest fire situations in the area. .
Co To Mountain is abbreviated as Mount To, also known as Phung Hoang Son, Khmer name is Phnom-Kto, over 600m high and is one of the mountains in the That Son range, in Co To commune, Tri Ton District, An Giang.
Co To Mountain borders Cambodia, is famous for many beehives and possesses hundreds of large underground cave systems.
