Shimla, Jan. 14 -- Rising incidents of fire has taken around 10 lives in last three days, also forced the state authority to sound alarm to public as its extreme cold weather.
Theog a hill subdivision located about 30 kilometres east of Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, in northern India was put on high risk following heavy inflammable pine forest and grass pastures.
The suburbs is internationally known for its apple belt, dense conifer forests and fragile mountain ecology was kept on alert by the subdivision magistrate by issuing instructions to officers and Panchayat representatives.
Amid a sharp rise in forest fire incidents attributed to a prolonged dry spell and persistent coldwave conditions, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (S...