Hot, dry weather fanning flames in forest reserves

Laid to waste: Beyond the green ‘lalang’ are tracts of scorched land ravaged by peat fire in the southern part of the Kuala Langat Forest Reserve. — GRACE CHEN/The Star

Studies show most fires in Selangor caused by cigarette butt, open burning by hunters and farmers

While they were trying to coax a portable water pump to work, Kuala Langat Municipal Council (MPKL) Squad Pantas unit head Mazlan Abdul Manap heard a crackling sound just metres from where they were standing.