Tuesday, October 17, 2006
11:23 PM

Haze have been a problem for quite some time already & it's not getting any better..

Today was the 1st day of range & i was greeted by a burnt slope at the butt area..heard from the range warden that there was a fire last evening ( 7pm ) and it was only put out around 4am this morning by the firemen...The cause was by the pesterminators where they trying to destroy the bee hive with flames and the trees caught fire...
Initially was just a small fire but while waiting for the fire-fighters to arrive ( 40mins later ),the fire spreaded...

Later in the afternoon,around 245pm, when we were in the mist of conducting the test,the range warden suddenly ran out of the control room...We were left wondering what happened...
I stepped out of the control room then realise there's a fire at the butt area...But on closer look then realised that it's from the same slope but this time round was on the reverse side...
We see that the fire spreaded from right to left & back to right again....Though we cant see much but dense smoke...But once awhile flames can be seen from the trees canopy...It MUST be a huge fire back down there lor....

With the fire,the fire-fighters were called in again & after they have accessed the situation,there's nothin much they can do..more reinforcement was called in...Police came too...The training dept from G6 Army was there also...
What i heard was that the fire-fighters are trying to find ways to reach the flames on the reverse slope but there isn't any trail,footpath or road which any vehicle can travel except by foot...BUT it's very challenging for them to fight the fire...

As we were unable to carry on the shooting,we have to leave..by the time i left ( 7pm )..the fire engines were making their way to the butt area..but i don't know what's happening there lor...
I'll update more tomorrow when i come back home after tomorrow's shoot ( wonder is the range will still be there after that forest fire? ).......Hehe

Dense smoke in the far right....

Sky was made even more grey & smoky then normal......

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