Phuket haze alert no cause for alarm, says disaster chief

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The alert, posted on the DDPM-Phuket website this morning (Sept 8), is no cause for alarm, said the Phuket disaster-response chief.

 

PHUKET: -- A haze alert issued by the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket Office (DDPM-Phuket ) today is no cause for alarm, DDPM-Phuket Chief Prapan Kanprasang has confirmed to The Phuket News.

 

The alert, posted on the DDPM-Phuket website this morning (Sept 8), detailed the procedure that DDPM officers are to take if heavy forest fire haze, usually from mass burn-offs in neighbouring countries, descends over Phuket.

 

Standard procedures have been in place since heavy haze from mass burn-offs on Sumatra, southwest of Phuket, in October 2015 blanketed Phuket with what officials confirmed was Phuket’s “worst haze ever”. 

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-haze-alert-no-cause-for-alarm-says-disaster-chief-63806.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2017-09-08

Alerting you to nothing.

 

This was the effect in 2016 across asia...this considered premature deaths due to haze, did not include environment, heritage, social or a very large list of others...   PALM OIL.

 

Haze from Indonesian fires may have killed more than 100,000 people – study

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 A MI-17 helicopter run by the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency water-bombs a fire in South Sumatra province. Photograph: Abdul Qodir/AFP/Getty Images

Enjoy your haze Phuket, as I doubt that Indonesia will change their habits in our lifetime

Geezer

 

Didn't they try to explain this away a few seasons ago by telling the public it was "water vapor?"