PETALING JAYA: The increased incidence of fires is associated with hot and dry weather, says the Environment Department, which in the span of three years, received 19,099 open burning complaints from January 2019 to January 2022.
The department said that Malaysia normally experiences the hot and dry spell in the middle of January to March due to the second phase of the northeast monsoon where rainfall reception rates are low in most areas of the country.
