Rajouri, May 28 -- Due to the country's ongoing extreme heatwave, a large forest fire has started at several locations throughout the Rajouri Forest Division.

The teams from the Forest Department, Forest Protection Force, Social Forestry Department, and local volunteers have been deployed in extensive firefighting operations to halt the advance of the blaze and prevent it from spreading into dense forest regions.

Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Rajouri, Naveed Iqbal, stated that the blaze has spread across multiple areas of the division.

"We have personally visited two locations; this is our third. Furthermore, reports have come in from one or two other locations where we have already deployed our teams. We hope to successfully control...