CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — A fire that raged on Mt. Arayat in Pampanga on Wednesday night (Feb. 25) spared the protected landscape, an official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said in a report. Ground verification and assessment conducted on Feb. 26 confirmed that the affected area in Sitio Telatalaga, Barangay San Juan Baño in Arayat town, lies outside the Mt. Arayat Protected Landscape (MAPL) and is predominantly grassland, covering an estimated 6.414992 hectares, according to Mark Vincent Malana, officer-in-charge of the Conservation and Development Section of the DENR Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) […]... Keep on reading: DENR: Fire spares Mt. Arayat protected landscape