{"id":64569,"date":"2020-04-26T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64569"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T12:19:35","slug":"forest-dept-shares-measures-to-avoid-campfire-in-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/forest-dept-shares-measures-to-avoid-campfire-in-forests.html","title":{"rendered":"Forest Dept announces start of &#8216;fire season&#8217; in Rawalpindi division, takes measures to prevent campfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has notified the beginning of the \u2018fire season\u2019 for vulnerable forested areas located within the Rawalpindi Division to avoid incidents of campfires, a news source reported. This period will last till July 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/civil-society-steps-up-against-margalla-hills-fire-breakout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Civil society steps up against Margalla Hills\u2019 fire breakout<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per reports, the department has announced barring people \u2013 visiting the woodland areas of Margalla Hill, Kotli Sattiyan, Taxila, Lehtrar, Kallar Syedan, Ghora Gali and Panjar \u2013 from bringing along lighters, matchboxes, knives and axes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to further ensure that rules are diligently followed, reports claim installation of close-circuit cameras at all the important parts of these forests. Furthermore, the department has also established temporary camp offices where officials and guards will reportedly work in shifts for 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ihc-requested-help-control-fire-breakouts-margalla-hills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IHC requested to help control fire breakouts at Margalla Hills<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While talking to media, Forest Nazim Saqib Mehmood Sheikh said that the department has a \u2018zero-tolerance\u2019 policy in place against issues of theft and campfire incidents. He also mentioned that a number of ponds have already been set up to deal with any unfortunate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/four-mini-dams-completed-rawalpindi-district-forests-control-fires.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fire incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has notified the beginning of the \u2018fire season\u2019 for vulnerable forested areas located within the Rawalpindi Division to avoid incidents of campfires, a news source reported. This period will last till July 15. Read: Civil society steps up against Margalla Hills\u2019 fire breakout As per reports, the department has announced barring people \u2013 visiting the woodland areas of Margalla Hill, Kotli Sattiyan, Taxila, Lehtrar, Kallar Syedan, Ghora Gali and Panjar \u2013 from bringing along lighters, matchboxes, knives and axes. In order to further ensure that rules are diligently followed, reports claim installation of close-circuit cameras at all the important parts of these forests. Furthermore, the department has also established temporary camp offices where officials and guards will reportedly work in shifts for 24 hours a day. Read: IHC requested to help control fire breakouts at Margalla Hills While talking to media, Forest Nazim Saqib Mehmood Sheikh said that the department has a \u2018zero-tolerance\u2019 policy in place against issues of theft and campfire incidents. He also mentioned that a number of ponds have already been set up to deal with any unfortunate fire incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":64576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[27114,27113],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-64569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-forest-department-rawapindi","tag-rawalpindi-forest-fire-prevention","cat-15181-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Forest Dept shares measures to avoid campfire in forests - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has notified the beginning of the \u2018fire season\u2019 for vulnerable forested areas located within the Rawalpindi Division\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/forest-dept-shares-measures-to-avoid-campfire-in-forests.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forest Dept shares measures to avoid campfire in forests - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: The Forest Department has notified the beginning of the \u2018fire season\u2019 for vulnerable forested areas located within the Rawalpindi Division\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/forest-dept-shares-measures-to-avoid-campfire-in-forests.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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