TIMERGARA: A major forest fire broke out in the dense forest of Macho and Amlok Dara Talash near the Jalil Baba area in Lower Dir district on Saturday.
Taking notice of the calls from forest owners, Lower Dir Deputy Commissioner Wasil Khan directed the assistant commissioner Tariq Khan to take measures to extinguish the fire. A large number of local volunteers, most of them owners of the forest, rushed to the site and started a fire extinguishing operation but despite struggling for hours the fire flames were not controlled.
The Rescue 1122 firefighters along with officials of the forest department and Dir Levies also reached the spot and started their efforts to douse the flames but to no avail.Eyewitnesses said the fire had engulfed a large portion of the forest within a few hours.
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