Indonesia wildfires grow as Mount Bromo blaze spreads rapidly

Indonesia, Aug 10: Indonesia intensified efforts Monday to combat a growing number of wildfires across the archipelago, deploying helicopters, hundreds of firefighters and disaster personnel as blazes spread through a popular national park in East Java and peatlands in Sumatra during an unusually dry season, officials said. Scores of firefighters, backed by 43 helicopters, have been deployed to battle wildfires that have burned more than 107,000 hectares (264,000 acres) of forests and other land across the Southeast Asian nation, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Djamari Chaniago said. East Java authorities said the la…