In the last 24 hours, new cases of forest fire have been reported at 31 places in the state. According to the Forest Department, on Friday, the majority of forest fire incidents have been reported in reserved forests. According to Additional Chief Forest Conservator Nishant Verma, in the last 24 hours, 29 incidents of forest fire have been reported in reserved forests and two in civil or forest panchayats. A total of 33.34 hectares of forest have been affected by these. However, no human loss has been reported anywhere. 

The forests of Tehri, Pauri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, and Chamoli districts of the Garhwal division are continuously blazing. Due to most of the forests being pine forests, the fire is spreading rapidly. Forest workers are busy extinguishing the fire. If the fire is extinguished at one place, it flares up at another place. The fire has caused a large amount of damage to forest wealth. At the same time, the problem of fodder for animals has also arisen. 

Fire flared up again in the forests of Chamoli.
 Fire has flared up again in the forests of Chamoli district. On Friday, incidents of forest fire were reported at five different places in the district. Due to this a large amount of forest wealth has been destroyed. On Friday, a fire broke out in the forests of Kothiyalasain and Gwilon near Gopeshwar. The fire in the pine forest rapidly took a monstrous form. In the morning, a fire also broke out in the forest below the Engineering College. The fire reached near the horse stable in the ITBP campus.

On receiving the information, the team of Fire Service Gopeshwar reached the spot and after a lot of effort extinguished the fire. In the afternoon, a fire also broke out in the Devkhal forest. Within no time, the fire spread to a large area of ​​the forest.

At the same time, a fire broke out in the pine forest in the civil land of Vishal Gram Panchayat of Pokhari development block. Forest Sarpanch Mahipal Singh informed the Kedarnath Forest Division about the forest fire. Forest Inspector Anand Singh Rawat of Nagnath Range of the division reached the spot with fire watchers, after a lot of effort the forest workers controlled the fire.

The helpless forest department is unable to control the forest fire.
The preparations of the forest department to save the forests from fire in the fire season in Kandisaud (Tehri) have gone in vain. The department seemed helpless when the fire broke out in several places at the same time. When the departmental employees were informed, they lamented the shortage of manpower. Due to this, the forests are blazing in various places. The fire that broke out in the civil forest area of ​​Sunargaon at 10 am on Friday was brought under control after five hours. The forest of Kandisaud started blazing only one-and-a-half hours after the forest employees returned from there after extinguishing the fire. The local people informed the forest department.

Forest workers said that they are busy extinguishing the fire in the forests of Padogi, Lawani, Kastal, and Bhandarki in the Mainkhal area. Due to this, the pine forest kept burning from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Forest Inspector Premlal Dobhal said that as soon as the fire in the Mainkhal area is controlled, the team will be sent to the Kandisaur area. On the other hand, the forest in Padagali of Bhilangana block also kept burning for hours. Due to this the forest wealth has suffered a lot. 

The forest department took the help of the Air Force helicopter.
To extinguish the fire in the forests of Kumaon, the Air Force helicopter has started filling water from Bhimtal lake and pouring it in the forests from Saturday. On Saturday morning, the Air Force helicopter filled a tank of water from Bhimtal lake and poured it on the fire in the forests of Nainital. Forest Range Officer Vijay Melkani told that the help of the Air Force helicopter has been taken to extinguish the fire in the forests. Melkani told that so far the helicopter has filled water from the lake three times and has started pouring it on the fire in the forests. Melkani told that the employees of the forest department are also engaged in extinguishing the fire. The forest wealth of the forests of Bhimtal, Pines, Ranibagh, Sattal, Betalghat and Ramgarh has suffered heavy damage due to the fire.