Experts: Peat fires can spread far, smolder for months
Experts from Sunway University and the Academy of Sciences Malaysia said peat fires can spread underground and persist for months, complicating efforts to extinguish them. They also said cloud seeding is ineffective during the El Nino phenomenon. Serian recorded a hazardous API of 408, while Kuching, Sri Aman and Samarahan recorded very unhealthy readings.