Srinagar, Feb. 5 -- Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed a rise in forest fires due to prolonged dry spell. For the past two months, over two dozen forest fire incidents were reported in different parts of J&K.

Top forest officials acknowledged that less precipitation in the forests could trigger more forest fires in the coming weeks

Recently, the J&K Disaster Management had also issued an advisory warning that the dry spell could spark more fires in J&K especially in Ramban, Jammu and Rajouri in Jammu district and Baramulla, Kupwara and Srinagar in Kashmir.

For the last three weeks most of the weather stations are recording 6 to 8 degrees above normal temperature and in some forests, especially in north Kashmir, people have seen blooming o...