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Forests mastered after 10 days:
The west of the country has been struck by forest fires in recent days.
Photo: KEYSTONE/AP/Ghaith Alsayed
Syrian civil defense announced on Sunday that it has mastered the. Consequently, forest fires that raged for several days in the west of the country. However, It continues to monitor the affected sites to avoid new fires.
Forest lights triggered ten days ago in the coastal province of Lattaquié ravaged some 100 km2 of wooded areas according to the UN. In addition, but have not made any victims. However, Some 5. 000 people were affected by these fires in the Lattaquié region where several localities were evacuated, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Bureau (OCHA) said at the start of the week.
‘The fire households were brought under control on all the fronts on Saturday’. but the teams on forests mastered after 10 days the ground ‘continue to monitor the sites in the event of the resumption of fires,’ said the civil defense on Facebook.
The minister responsible for emergency situations. disasters, Raed al-Saleh, announced on Saturday evening on X that the local civil defense helped by Turkish, Jordanian, Lebanese, Qatari and Iraqi teams, had managed to ‘stop the spread of fire on all fronts’. He nevertheless warned that ‘threats’ persisted and that the teams ‘work to prevent’ new fires.
The teams had been confronted with particularly difficult conditions: high temperatures. strong winds, steep mountainous relief and presence of mines in a country bruised by almost 14 years of civil war. The Minister of the Interior, Anas Khattab, said suspected an involvement of certain individuals in fires.
While climate change increases the frequency. intensity of droughts and fires around the world, Syria has also been affected by waves of heat and low precipitation. In forests mastered after 10 days June. the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told AFP that Syria had not known as bad climatic conditions for 60 years’.
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Forests mastered after 10 days
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