Huge fire breaks out at Tsavo National Park
Huge fire breaks out at Tsavo National Park
A huge fire was sighted at Tsavo East National Park on Saturday, 3 October, with flames spreading across large sections of the park and raising concern over the extent of the destruction.
Footage from the area showed massive tracts of land engulfed in flames, with the fire appearing to spread towards the Taveta-Voi highway. The scale of the blaze suggested that it had affected a significant area of the park.
The fire may have started earlier in the week before being captured in footage on Saturday. The information suggested that the blaze had been burning for several days.
The footage did not show any visible response from an agency attempting to contain or extinguish the fire at the time it was recorded. The cause of the blaze had also not been established, leaving uncertainty over what triggered the fire or how long it had been burning.
At the time of the reporting of this incident, there has been no response from any relevant authority.
This incident comes weeks after a similar incident was witnessed on September 7 after a wildfire broke out in Tsavo East National Park at around 1 p.m.
Initial reports indicated that the fire had been caused by a burst fuel tank. However, the organisation later clarified that ground teams had established that the incident was a bush fire.
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The fire advanced toward the Taveta-Voi highway, raising concerns over potential disruptions as authorities worked to contain the spreading flames.
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel, Taita Taveta county teams, and Kenya Red Cross responders deployed resources to combat the blaze.
Mount Kenya ecosystem was also not left out in the month of September, as the Mount Kenya forest fire broke out on September 1, ravaging for over a week and destroying approximately 30,000 acres as per the Kenya Forest Service (KFS).
The blaze erupted near Rutundu Lodge before spreading rapidly across 17 different spots, affecting key forest stations including Ruthumbi, Mucheene, Marania, and Meru.
Severe drought, prolonged lack of rainfall, highly flammable moorland shrubs and fierce winds fuelled the fire, accelerating its destructive spread according to KFS.
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