Dzükou valley Kohima/IBNS: The Kohima District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) of Nagaland said the wildfire, which broke out along a trekking route leading to the scenic Dzükou valley on Dec 29, has reportedly been brought under control on the valley site.
A total of 24000 litres of water with 12 shuttles have been dropped in fire fighting exercise.
Indian Air Force Helicopters were used for dropping water at Dzukou fire.
A total of 4 helicopters made two trips each on Jan 3.
On Sunday, ADC & CEO DDMA Lithrongla Tongpi Rutsa along with DDMO Thejangulie Zao, DPA Kohima, Victor Yhome and some trained personnel visited the location.
Ground operations were carried out by Nagaland Police, Forest, NDRF, SDRF and SAYO Volunteers. SDPO South and Range Forest Officer, Kohima led the operation who along with SDO Civil Jakhama have also been coordinating the ground operations. More Volunteers from SDRF, DEF, 4th NAP, Forest Department and SAYO Volunteers went up to Dzukou.
Fire watcher informed Range Forest Officer that fire was descending down on South West side. Immediately message was relayed to the control room to brief forces to start cutting fire line on that side to prevent further spread.
Kohima Forest Division and SAYO volunteers have already cut a 5 Km fire line on Dec 31 and another 2 Km fire line was cut by SAYO volunteers on Jan 1, assisted by Kohima Police and SDRF to prevent the spread of fire to valley.
On Jan 3 further fire line cutting was done to contain the fire in the valley.
DC and Chairman DDMA, Mohammed Ali Shihab A, informed that as a follow up, to maintain a seamless communication with ground ops team, a Control room has been set up by Kohima Police at Dzukou entry point at Viswema village and two relay stations were also set up at resting shed and Base camp area, Dzukou Valley.
According to DC, the fire is concentrated in area between Mt. Tempfu and Elephant gate (near the main Valley) which is descending down towards the valley.
Rest of the area along the trekking route (From View point to Base camp area) where major fire were present for past two/three days have completely subsided.
DC and Chairman DDMA also informed that Advisor to Chief Minister of Nagaland, Technical Education & Elections, Government of Nagaland, Medo Yokha accompanied by himself and SP Kohima along with SDO Civil Jakhama, village representatives and others visited Dzükou Valley to take first hand report of fire fighting exercise and inspected the valley on Jany 2.
SP Kohima, Manoj Kumar also informed that 24 personnel from 4th NAP, 21 personnel-SDRF, 38 personnel - NDRF, 7 personnel - Forest Dept, 10 personnel - Kohima DEF along with SAYO volunteers participated in today ground operation. Another 20 personnel from NDRF Kohima team who were at base camp also joined the ground operations.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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