'Nothing left to burn' as fires die out in Indonesian region
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24/04/1998
Most of the raging forest fires devastating Indonesia's Borneo province of East Kalimantan are out, partly because of rain, partly because there is nothing left to burn, an Environment Ministry official said. "A large part of the fires, about 70 percent, have been extinguished, not just by the rains but because there is nothing left to burn," said Murdiansyah, an official of the East Kalimantan Environment Impact Management Agency, an arm of the Environment Ministry.