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As estimated 8,000 square miles of land burned - an area as large as New Jersey - Indonesian officials looked for scapegoats. They pointed to an El Nino-induced drought that left ground so dry normal fires raced out of control, as in a banana plot in Sumatra.
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 18.9 Mpixels (54 MB uncompressed) - 5310x3556 pixels (17.7x11.9 in / 45x30.1 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: blaze, catastrophe, danger, disaster, fire, flames, forest, Indonesia, Indonesian Fires, landscape, orange, outside
Published in: Indonesia, Indonesia's Plague of Fire