Sixteen fires put out in Homs and its countryside

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Today, Homs firefighters extinguished 16 fires that affected fruitful and forestry trees and herbs in separate areas of Homs Governorate.

Colonel Othman Juda, commander of the Homs Fire Brigade, told SANA's correspondent that the Homs firefighting operations room had received a report about a large fire that broke out with weeds and forest trees at the Al-Hawash Bridge site near the feed factory in the western countryside of Homs. And immediately the firefighters went to the site and dealt with the fire and were able to extinguish it after four years of effort. Hours.

Juda added that the firefighters dealt with a fire that affected olive trees in the village of Fataya in the western countryside of Homs and were able to extinguish it, in addition to several forest tree fires at Mubarak's gas station on the Homs-Tartous road and near the military gas station on the Homs-Damascus road and near the village of Ghazala in the eastern countryside of Homs and in the Hasan Ibn al-Haytham camp. In Homs city.

Juda pointed out that the firefighters put out a fire that broke out in a house in the Abbasiya neighborhood and a car near the farm roundabout in Homs city without casualties, in addition to extinguishing eight grass fires in separate areas in Homs and its countryside.

Juda called on citizens to pay attention and be careful not to throw cigarette butts on the roadside or set fire to prevent fires, especially with high temperatures.

It is noteworthy that Homs firefighters put out a number of fires yesterday in Homs and its countryside that affected forest and fruitful trees.