Tak crackdown on outdoor fires continues

By Somjit Rungjamrasrassamee 
The Nation

 

 

A fourth man has been arrested in Tak for violating the province’s 60-day ban on outdoor burning, which continues through April 10 as an anti-pollution measure.
 

Police, alerted by village headman Thaweesak Euy-ai, arrested a “stateless person” identified only as Sathinont in Mae Sot district on Monday morning.

 

On Sunday, three men, including two Myanmar migrant workers, were detained in Phob Phra district for burning sugarcane stalks on a plantation on Phop Phra-Ban Don Chedi Road.

 

Sathinont, who was found incinerating garbage outside a canvas shop, claimed to be unware of the ban aimed at curbing the perennial problem of haze stemming mainly from land-clearing operations.

 

Elsewhere in Tak on Monday, firefighters were called to extinguish a blaze on a 10-rai sugarcane plantation that was threatening to spread to Ban San (Moo 8) village in Tambon Mae Pa.

 

The province’s goal is to reduce the number of serious burning incidents by half. There were 82 deliberately set fires during the same period last year.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30338622

 

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That explains why my neighbour (retired policeman) was having a huge fire on his property at 5.30 am yesterday... when we were awoken by cracks and bangs, smoke and red flames.. we were frightened the house was on fire!!!  

 

Seriously, good for them to try to reduce the burning at last.  

 

 

In our area the police are getting serious, they are charging each farm 500 baht to let them burn there sugar.

 

The wife's farther runs a sugar cutting operation for our local factory. His team must have cut over 50 farms so far this year. The police love him, its Johnnie walker for breakfast in our local police station.

ha...ha...ha...the poor guy that probably do that because his boss orders him....