Fires

  • Northern Thailand NewsChiang Mai has world’s worst air quality as fires rage in the north
    ThaigerPublished: 17:38, 12 March 2019
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    Chiang Mai has world’s worst air quality as fires rage in the north

    This morning Chiang Mai had the world’s worst air quality.In the WHOLE world! Thailand’s northern city was ranked the #1 most air-polluted city on earth with a 209 air quality index score on airvisual.com. The air worsened to an AQI of 233 around noon. Meanwhile the Pollution Control Department reports the average 24 hour level of PM2.5 dust particulates had…

  • Northern Thailand NewsWhere there’s fire, there’s smoke – Lampang mountains
    ThaigerPublished: 12:36, 06 March 2019
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    Where there’s fire, there’s smoke – Lampang mountains

    Adding to the air pollution woes of the north, bushfires have been keeping state firefighters and volunteers busy trying to control the outbreaks in the mountains east of Chiang Mai and north of Lampang. The efforts yesterday were to battle a front of multiple fires in Doi Phra Baht forest in Lampang’s Muang district. Fires have been erupting in multiple…

  • Thailand NewsPregnant wild turtle rescued from Lampang forest fire
    ThaigerPublished: 11:57, 27 February 2019
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    Pregnant wild turtle rescued from Lampang forest fire

    PHOTO: Lampang PR Office Fire fighters have rescued a pregnant wild turtle which was trying to escape from a forest fire at Doi Prabat in Lampang yesterday. The Thai News Agency reports that fire fighters from the Royal Forest Department, who were fighting at the firefront on Doi Prabat in Lampang found the pregnant wild turtle which was doing its…