Battling a fire in Indonesia that had raged for a week felt like an impossible task for Singaporean Benjamin Tay.
"You can feel the heat radiating and see small plumes of smoke from the ground because peat fires burn on and under the ground," Mr Tay, 37, told The Straits Times yesterday, after returning from the burning 10ha peatland near Tanjung Sari village in Riau province.
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