“Mount Kilimanjaro Fire Started Accidentally” investigator.
Hundreds of Tanzanian
firefighters and citizens are trying to contain a fire on Mount Kilimanjaro,
Africa's highest mountain at 5,895 meters.
The National Park spokesman
Pascal Shelutete said the initial investigation found the fire started Sunday
by porters servicing climbers at the Whona rest area.
Shelutete told reporters
Tuesday the fire, used to warm up food, ignited dry grass and shrubs.
The fire is confined to the
Mandara and Horombo trails, Shelutete said, which are no higher than 2,700
meters above sea level.
So far, there are no reports
of casualties from the fire on the popular site, which attracts tens of
thousands of climbers each year, many determined to reach the peak.
Reuters reports more than two
hundred university stude...