Teenager in superman costume joins wildfire fight in Indonesia
Rudiyansah, 17, first became familiar with wildfire response as he accompanying his father, the head of a local volunteer firefighting group, to fire hotspots. One day, he spotted a superman costume in his wardrobe and decided it would be "fun" to wear it while helping extinguish fires. Indonesia is currently facing a wildfire and haze crisis. Nearly 95,000 hectares of land burned across the country in July alone, according to government data released this week. The area affected has already surpassed losses recorded during previous El Niño years in 2019 and 2023, although it remains below the devastating levels seen in 2015, when a particularly strong El Niño fueled one of the country's worst wildfire disasters.
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