As part of the mitigation and prevention efforts, the agency stated that 11 additional firefighters and two more fire trucks were deployed to reinforce a joint team of personnel and several fire trucks previously dispatched to fight the wildfires.
The extra firefighters and fire trucks were focused in the Harian Sub-district, Samosir District, according to Head of the agency's emergency response, equipment, and logistics unit Sri Wahyuni Pancasilawati.
She explained that their deployment to the sub-district's area was necessary as five hotspots, indicating likely occurrence of land and forest fires, were still detected on Wednesday morning.
The North Sumatra Disaster Response Command Center reported earlier that the wildfires broke out in the protected forest area of Turpuk Limbong Village, near the Tele observation tower at 12:30 a.m. local time on July 1.
Lake Toba is designated as one of Indonesia's super-priority tourist destinations, alongside Labuan Bajo (East Nusa Tenggara), Mandalika (West Nusa Tenggara), Borobudur Temple (Central Java), and Likupang (North Sulawesi).
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