Eternity RPC Board
11-08-2017, 04:49 PM
The forest was burning.
Large thick black clouds of smoke were carried high by northern winds and could be seen for miles and miles.
There had been an accident at an oil rig, and a fuel tanker had exploded. With how dry the forest could get late in the year, it went up in flames relatively quickly. The remoteness of the blaze made it difficult to contain early on, and it spread rapidly. It took the authorities nearly half a day to get into position to begin combating the blaze, and by then it was already enormous.
It was all over the news in Harmajaa, and many saw it as a critical blunder in a long list of them in Sappa. The environment itself was fighting the Harmajaan efforts. Still, progress was being made, slow as it may be.
It took four days for the blaze to die down, and even then the ground was still hot. Oddly enough, it was precipitation that expedited the end of the fires.
Environmental officials in Harmajaa and abroad blasted the oil company responsible for the accident, a Mordvanian oil group called Astakka Oil. It was a lot of negative press, but privately the government assured Astakka that nothing serious would occur. Their investment in Sappa was important to building the economy there, and they couldnt lose it for the sake of a few angry environmentalists.
Large thick black clouds of smoke were carried high by northern winds and could be seen for miles and miles.
There had been an accident at an oil rig, and a fuel tanker had exploded. With how dry the forest could get late in the year, it went up in flames relatively quickly. The remoteness of the blaze made it difficult to contain early on, and it spread rapidly. It took the authorities nearly half a day to get into position to begin combating the blaze, and by then it was already enormous.
It was all over the news in Harmajaa, and many saw it as a critical blunder in a long list of them in Sappa. The environment itself was fighting the Harmajaan efforts. Still, progress was being made, slow as it may be.
It took four days for the blaze to die down, and even then the ground was still hot. Oddly enough, it was precipitation that expedited the end of the fires.
Environmental officials in Harmajaa and abroad blasted the oil company responsible for the accident, a Mordvanian oil group called Astakka Oil. It was a lot of negative press, but privately the government assured Astakka that nothing serious would occur. Their investment in Sappa was important to building the economy there, and they couldnt lose it for the sake of a few angry environmentalists.