Deliberate fires by farm owners, smallholders, one of the causes of Sabah open burning cases

KOTA KINABALU: Farm owners and smallholders who deliberately set fires to clear land, are believed to be one of the causes of open burning incidents in seven locations in Sabah, according to the Fire and Rescue Department director-general Datuk Nor Hisham Mohammad.

He said that the department and relevant parties were still working hard to put out the fires in the affected areas, and he had instructed the department's Mi17 helicopter based in Miri, Sarawak, to help with fire-fighting, using the water bombing method.