持续的印度尼西亚火灾导致东南亚部分地区被有毒雾霾笼罩，引发了区域气候和火灾监测机构的最高级别警报。
Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc’s climate and fire monitor.
“东南亚南部地区启动警报级别3”，新加坡东盟专门气象中心（ASMC）在其网站上表示，该信息于周六被看到。
“Activation of Alert Level 3 for the Southern Asean region,” the Singapore Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) said on its website, seen on Saturday.
ASMC 位于新加坡樟宜机场附近，使用四级警报系统，从零到三级，当该地区存在“严重跨境雾霾的高风险”时触发最高级别。
Based near Singapore’s Changi Airport, the ASMC uses a four-tiered alert level system, from zero to three, with the highest triggered if there is a “high risk of severe transboundary haze in the region”.
这包括显著且持续的热点活动，伴有广泛的中度至浓密烟雾雾霾，连续两天或以上被观测到，天气持续干燥，风继续将雾霾吹向东南亚国家邻国。
This included significant and persistent hotspot activities with widespread moderate to dense smoke haze, observed over two or more consecutive days, dry weather persisting and wind continuing to blow haze towards Association of Southeast Asian Nations neighbours.
ASMC 的警报是在周五发布的，但类似的警报今年已经发布了两次——分别在8月26日和3月27日。
The ASMC alert was issued on Friday, but similar alerts have already been handed out twice this year – on August 26 and March 27.
持续数月的雾霾已经扰乱了东南亚大部分地区的生活，导致学校停课和呼吸道投诉激增。
The months-long spell of haze has been disrupting life in large parts of Southeast Asia, closing schools and spiking respiratory complaints.
周五，新加坡表示将向其在印度尼西亚确认的七家被认为对火灾负责的公司发出警告，但警告最坏的情况可能尚未到来。新加坡本身没有种植园或森林，但多家在印尼拥有特许权的公司据称总部设在该城邦。
On Friday, Singapore said it would issue warnings to seven companies in Indonesia it identified as responsible for fires but warned the worst may yet to come. Singapore has no plantations or forests of its own, but several companies with concessions in Indonesia are reportedly based in the city state.
当局表示，周四在东爪哇省布罗莫腾格塞梅鲁国家公园扑救火灾时，有四人遇难。另有两人遭受严重烧伤，正接受进一步医疗治疗。
Four people died in East Java’s Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park fighting the blazes on Thursday, authorities said. Two others suffered serious burns and were receiving further medical treatment.
“此次事件提醒我们，森林和土地火灾扑救是一项高风险作业，”林业部门在周五表示，并补充说人员安全仍然是首要关注点。
“This incident serves as a reminder that forest and land fire extinguishing is a high-risk operation,” the forestry department said on Friday, adding that personnel safety remained a primary concern.
该部门在同份声明中表示，在六个“优先省份”的多个地区热点数量显著增加，共检测到615个热点。
The department in the same statement said there was a significant jump in hotspots in several areas in six “priority provinces” where 615 hotspots were detected.
热点是指卫星检测到异常高温的位置，表明可能存在火灾或其他强热源。
A hotspot is a location where a satellite detects an unusually high temperature, indicating a potential fire or other strong heat source.