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South Papua, IndonesiaE7 EcosystemsE6E12

Wildfire Fight Intensifies

Indonesia's military helicopter crashed while on a wildfire mission off Borneo, killing one, per SCMP.

The death toll from the crash has risen to two as search efforts continue, Gulf News reports.

BNPB has stepped up cloud seeding operations in South Papua to combat persistent wildfires, The Jakarta Post notes.

Weather modification efforts are being extended to fight the fires, Tempo.co reports.

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Sources —

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01gulfnewsgulfnews.com · 4 NovDeath toll from Indonesian water-bombing helicopter crash rises to two 02asiatimesasiatimes.com · 4 NovIndonesia’s food and fuel security drive invites scrutiny in Papua 03scmpscmp.com · 4 NovIndonesian military helicopter on wildfire mission crashes off Borneo, killing 1 04volcanodiscoveryvolcanodiscovery.com · 4 NovPapua New Guinea Earthquakes: Latest Quakes 05volcanodiscoveryvolcanodiscovery.com · 4 NovModerate mag. 4.4 earthquake - South Pacific Ocean, Provinsi Papua, 18 km northeast of Nabire, Indonesia, on Wednesday, Nov 4, 2026, at 12:46 am (GMT +0) 06volcanodiscoveryvolcanodiscovery.com · 3 NovWeak mag. 2.7 earthquake - South Pacific Ocean, 80 km northwest of Jayapura, Indonesia, on Wednesday, Nov 4, 2026, at 12:05 am (GMT +9) 07thejakartapostthejakartapost.com · 3 NovBNPB steps up cloud seeding as wildfires persist in South Papua 08enen.tempo.co · 3 NovWeather Modification Extended to Fight South Papua Fires

Open data on the globe —

check it yourself
Fires seen from orbit
1,737 hot spots in 24 h within 300 km · 108 new this week
14,666 MW of heat · 963 the day before
satellites see heat, not its cause
“Satellites picked up 1737 fires within 300 kilometres in the last day, 108 of them where nothing burned earlier this week.”
NASA FIRMS VIIRS (NOAA-20, NOAA-21), gas flares and steady industrial heat removed · Open the same data on firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov →

Why these floors —

E7 · E6 · E12

E14 places every story on a stack of fifteen floors, from the fields under everything to the planet acting as one. This one sits on E7, ecosystems; the pressure it names: wildfire fight. Its words also reach E6 organisms and E12 states.

Here it is a dynamic between ecosystems, organisms and states: wildfire mission, wildfires, cloud seeding operations and Weather modification efforts (E7 ecosystems), with killing one and death toll (E6 organisms), and Indonesia's military (E12 states).

E0 fieldsE7 ecosystemsE14 global
E7 Ecosystemsmain floor

The floor of weather and living systems. In this briefing: wildfire mission, wildfires, cloud seeding operations, Weather modification efforts.

E6 Organisms

The floor of bodies and health. In this briefing: killing one, death toll.

E12 States

The floor of states and force. In this briefing: Indonesia's military.