As-Suwayda-Sana
Firefighting teams and the concerned authorities in the endosperm governorate are continuing their efforts to contain a renewed fire this afternoon in the Dhamna Nature Reserve, northeast of the city of As-Suwayda, and caused extensive damage to their perennial forest trees.
The Director of the Office of Readiness in the Governorate of As-Suwayda, Dr. Mubarak Salam, affirmed in a statement to SANA correspondent that a number of the mechanisms of the relevant service institutions had been mobilized within the emergency plan developed by the governorate to face the danger of fires to support the fire control, in addition to the mechanisms of the fire brigade and civil defense, the Directorate of Agriculture, the Forestry Department and the Water Corporation.
In turn, the head of the forestry department in the Department of the endosperm agriculture, Eng. Anas Abu Fakhr, pointed out the renewal of the outbreak of fire in the depth of the reserve, which includes perennial forestry trees, most of which are oak trees, after three fires erupted yesterday, which were controlled and extinguished late in the night yesterday, with the combined efforts of firefighting teams And the concerned authorities after it damaged large areas.
Abu Fakhr explained that the proliferation of dense dry grasses in the reserve of nature and complex terrain and very difficult, with dry winds and high temperatures contributed to the speed of the fire spread among the great efforts and efforts made by the concerned authorities and firefighting and emergency crews to reach the sites of fire and contain it in light of the region's lack of roads inside. Where the mechanisms of some institutions to open roads towards fire.
For his part, the commander of the Sweida Fire Brigade, Nayef Al-Shaar, indicated that in light of the difficult and rugged nature and the absence of roads inside the reserve, the fire, which is expanding rapidly towards the east, has not yet been controlled until it exceeded its area of about four hundred dunums, despite the great efforts and unremitting efforts to reach the places of spread of fire to deal with her.
The emblem pointed out that the fire brigade dealt in parallel with several fires that broke out with varying areas of dry grass in the factories area on Al-Tha'lah Road and next to the Hittin School and east of Al-Kum and at the Industrial Institute and West of the southern outpost and in the naked houses and broadcasting station in addition to extinguishing a fire in a house west of Al-Tha'la Roundabout.
In a related context, the Sheba Firefighting Unit, in cooperation with the families and supporters of members of the Syrian Arab Army, put out a fire that broke out in the lands between the villages of Zakir and Khalakhleh along the Lajat in the northern countryside of the governorate.
Firas Obaid, the fire brigade commander, stated that the fire affected dozens of dunums of dry grass and was controlled and extinguished before extending it to the crops, indicating that the firefighting unit also managed to extinguish another fire in cooperation with the people that broke out in the northern area of the city of Sheba between the citizens ’homes and caused limited damage With fruit trees.
For his part, the fire brigade commander in Salkhad Ala 'Imad mentioned that the firefighting unit extinguished a number of fires, one of which took an area of seventy dunums between dry herbs and field crops in Farzan village, south of the reef in the far southeastern countryside, in addition to extinguishing two fires that broke out within agricultural lands in the town of Al-Quriya, most of them in Dry herbs as one of them damaged an agricultural tractor before it was extinguished in cooperation with the Red Crescent Division in the town and support the local activities.
