TATAU, March 26 2026: Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) has resorted to deploying helicopter in the efforts to put off the bushfires that have spread to over 8 hectares of secondary jungle in Kuala Tatau Serupai here.
Caption: An helicopter ferry a bucket of water to be dropped on the fire spots
Firefighters have so far extinguished the bushfire involving an area of 3 hectares since it started last Monday.
According to Tatau Bomba, the fire is now threatening to spread to the farms of the villagers in Kuala Tatau Serupai.
The villages, however, are not in immediate danger as the bushfires are far away.
The fire is believed to have started about 4pm on March 23.
Due to the current dry season, the bushfires grows bigger and spread to wider area.
According to Tatau Bomba, Miri Fire Brigade Air Unit arrived at the location at about 11am to help extinguish the forest fire due to the location not having sufficient open water sources for personnel to prevent the fire from spreading.
A total of 15 extinguishing operations using the 'Water-Bombing' method have been carried out by the Miri Fire Brigade Air Unit in several fire spots at the location in the morning.
Currently, the operations by the Air Unit are still being carried out.
At 2pm, the operations Commander reported that the Miri Fire Brigade Air Unit has carried out 30 'Water-Bombing' Operations by taking water sources from seawater and now the Miri Fire Brigade Air Unit has gone to Bintulu Airport to refuel.
It was also reported that the area of the forest that has burned has increased to 8 hectares and the extinguishing so far carried out by Fire Brigade personnel has extinguished 3 hectares of the total burned area.
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