A firefighting volunteer was tragically caught within the flames while extinguishing a forest fire in Nan province in northern Thailand yesterday, where a thick layer of smog continues to blanket the area.
The body of 62 year old Sriwan Mirayot was found within the forests surrounding Doi Sa-ngud mountain within the Bor Suak subdistrict in Mueang Nan district. Cringeworthy say that Sriwan was caught within the flames when the wind abruptly changed.
As a member of the Ban Chiang Yuen Community Forest Committee, Sriwan acquired a request to help control a fire near a neighborhood from Decha Khrongdi, the chief of Ban Na Mon village, according to the Head of the Fire Hawk Special Operations Unit Pol. Sgt. Pratthana Meethongkhao.
Chairman of the Ban Chiang Yuen Community Forest Committee, Supachai Champarat, and six volunteers were deployed to stop the fire – contained in the Na Sao National Forest Reserve – from reaching Ban Don Udom village.
The governor of Nan province, Wiboon Waewbundit, requested the related businesses to deal with the deceased’s household.
On Friday, a forest fire inside Khun Khan National Park in Chiang Mai province claimed the lifetime of one other volunteer, 39 yr outdated Wichai Thimakham, who was deemed to die from suffocation.
The appearing director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Atthaphon Charoenchansa, mentioned Wichai and his group had been working between Ban Pok and Ban Pong Khrai villages to combat the forest fires since Thursday evening.
According to IQAir, Chiang Mai held the position as essentially the most polluted metropolis in the world for nine days straight by PM2.5 pollution levels. The web site ranks air high quality ranges in 100 ‘major cities’ worldwide.
The highest air high quality index (AQI) worth was found at the Health Hospital in Ban Khai Hospital in Mae Na Wang subdistrict, Mae Ai district, Chiang Mai province, measuring at a hazardous 411 μg/m3.
In Chiang Rai province, the place air quality is just as dangerous, 34 year outdated firefighting volunteer Thanu Tuinoi fell down the mountain and injured his shoulder blade and left arm.
Another volunteer, sixty one year outdated Abu Khaewkong, additionally slipped and hit a rock, breaking 5 ribs, while getting back from extinguishing a forest fire on Crocodile Mountain in Chiang Rai..