It is already that time of the year again, when incidences of raging flames affect Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak in Northern Tanzania.
And sure enough the mountain is once more on fire, with the outburst reported to have started on the third day of September 2023 and the fire is still raging on now.
However an official statement from the Tanzania National Parks Headquarters in Arusha is to the effect that the fire is not hampering tourism activities on the Mountain.
So far a team of 134 personnel has been dispatched onto the mountain to contain the fire outbreaks.
It is still not known what or who was the cause of the fire, which is reported to raze around the Rombo escarpments on the mountain.
The statement says more forces will continue to be sent to Kilimanjaro to assist in the fire-quelling exercise.
The fire on Kilimanjaro started at the Indonet Rongai parts of the National Park which falls on the Rombo District side.
The Rombo District of Kilimanjaro is the precinct where Tanzania borders Kenya along the Tarakea-Oloitokitok territorial boundary.
Around this time last year in October 2022, to be precise, fire broke on the mountain and razed on for more than a month.
More than 34.2 Square Kilometers of Vegetation on Kilimanjaro were destroyed during the October 2022 incident.
After the previous outbreak of 2022 the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) claimed to be already taking more precautions against future occurrences…sort of.
Fire problems on Kilimanjaro had already been dealt with in the past and according to experts areas that previously experienced fire outbreaks, for some reason no longer suffer such occurrences.
There have been a series of fire episodes on the mountain, in 2020 occurring in Udetu and Samanga parts, again on the Rombo escarpments.
The October 2022 flames also razed River Karanga, Umbwe and Baranko areas, before spreading to Mandara, Kasoko near the Crater on the Marangu route sections.
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