Firefighters face an advancing wall of flame in Khon Buri national forest reserve in Nakhon Ratchasima overnight. (Photo by Prasit Tangprasert)NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A wildfire that started late on Monday burned out more than 100 rai of the Khon Buri national forest reserve overnight and continued to defy efforts to extinguish it on Tuesday. The fire was centred on Ban Nong Bot mountain in tambon Khok Krachai of Khon Buri district. More than a hundred rai of the Khon Buri national forest reserve had been burned as of Tuesday morning, he said. Aram Manchaona, head of a Khon Buri forest protection unit, said on Tuesday afternoon the fire had been controlled and was being kept within firebreaks made earlier.

Source: Bangkok Post February 13, 2018 05:15 UTC