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A bus fitted out with oxygen tanks is providing a sanctuary in a city on Indonesia's Borneo island where people are choking from forest-fire-induced haze and the blazes show no sign of letting up.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Indonesian city runs free oxygen buses as country's worst fires in over decade choke residents
Palangka Raya, a city on Indonesian Borneo, is running free buses fitted with oxygen tanks to help residents choking on haze from the country's most intense forest fires in more than a decade.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Thousands of Indonesian students protest over haze and demand emergency declared
Protesters wore thick masks against the smoke, which has tinged the city orange, and some held signs reading ‘haze emergency’ ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Breathing ‘poison’: In Borneo, residents are gasping for air
Palangkaraya, Indonesia—Sudarsono shuddered as he inhaled from an oxygen tank while being evacuated from his small house in Palangkaraya on Indonesian Borneo, yellow, acrid wildfire smoke billowing ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Hazardous haze engulfs Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Air particle levels in Palangka Raya have reached the hazardous category. WALHI Central Kalimantan said the response to forest and land fires needs to shift from focusing solely on firefighting to ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: 'How is it possible?': Students protest Indonesian haze
Hundreds of students protested late Friday in Indonesia's Palangkaraya, demanding the government do more to tackle a wildfire crisis that has shrouded their city and the wider region in toxic haze for ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Students protest Central Kalimantan haze
The students, many wearing surgical masks, gathered under an eerily orange sky with severely reduced visibility and waved banners urging authorities to declare a national emergency to free up more aid ...
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Indonesia Enlists 350 Companies to Fight Fires in South Kalimantan
Indonesia enlists 350 companies to prevent fires across 10,000 hectares in South Kalimantan as blazes threaten the wider region.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Thick Haze Chokes Central Kalimantan City as Residents Seek National Disaster Status
Haze from 1,056 fire hotspots chokes Palangka Raya, with hazardous air pollution prompting calls for a national disaster status.
News Indonesia » Central Kalimantan » Government: Indonesia deploys nearly 17,000 personnel to fight fires in Central Kalimantan, South Sumatra
Ground operations are being prioritised over aerial operations because poor visibility has restricted water-bombing helicopter operations ...