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It Took a Viral Facebook Post to Put Out the Uttarakhand Fires

‘Ela Smetacek’ posted the issue with grim images showing the destruction of flora and fauna in the region.

TNIE online desk

While there was an outrage in the parliament over the president rule imposed on Uttarakhand, a huge inferno engulfing various parts of the same state went unnoticed for almost a week. The forest fires have been adding more fuel towards the existing heat wave in Uttarakhand.

Ofcourse, the headline doesn't mean literally. However, thanks to Ela Smetacek's Facebook post which highlighted the issue with grim images showing the destruction of flora and fauna in the region forced the people in the government and in the parliament to address the issue.

Even a Facebook page was created for the ‘Uttarakand Fires’ which has reached over 5,000 likes already. One cannot take away the credit by all the 56,509 people who had shared the post which brought the media attention towards the blazing inferno.

Here's the legendary Facebook post:

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