 Soaring temperatures reignited the forest fires on 18 May 2016 covering an area of nearly 180 hectares of green land being spread over 111 districts.Rangers and Divisional Forest Officers were asked to rush to the spot and extinguish the fire as soon as possible so as to reduce the damage done.This was the result of the temperatures of Uttarakhand which are about 4 to 5 degrees higher than the average temperatures at this time of the year.