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Control of a large fire with dry weeds in the northwestern countryside of Sweida

2020-09-10T19:28:59.059Z


Sweida-SANA The Shahba firefighting unit, in cooperation with the Civil Defense and the people, managed to control a large fire in a nest


Sweida-Sana

The Shahba firefighting unit, in cooperation with the civil defense and the people, managed to control a widespread fire with dry weeds that spread over hundreds of dunams of land between ancient towns and villages, Al-Kharsa and Majadel, in the Lajat area in the northwestern countryside of Suwayda.

The commander of the Shahba firefighting unit, Wasim al-Tawil, told SANA reporter that the fire broke out with dense dry weeds at the ancient “Kharsa road in the very rugged, rocky Lajat area, where the winds, high temperatures, and the inability of the vehicles to reach some of the fire sites quickly spread and spread in more than one place and spread over large areas. It is estimated at hundreds of dunams before it is contained after about four hours, with the concerted efforts of the elements of the firefighting units, civil defense, extinguishing fuel, the people, their vehicles and their individual equipment.

Al-Tawil pointed out that the fire renewed its outbreak in the evening hours within areas that could not be reached within the rugged rocky lands, as it extended towards the village of Majadel, to be dealt with again with the support of a tanker from the Shahba water unit and control of more than 95 percent of it, and some sites remained within a rocky area. Hard to reach.

Whereas Samir Al-Shibli, a resident of an ancient town, indicated that the fire started from the junction of the village of Kharsa and spread in the vicinity of the village and towards Tal Ammar before moving east towards the village of Majadel, where it caused limited damage to a number of olive trees, drip irrigation networks, and the vicinity of one of the poultry farms, mostly on weeds. Land and remnants of crops.

In the same context, the As-Suwayda fire brigade extinguished today a fire that broke out with a car carrying “cork” boxes after contact with power lines in the village of Al-Raha, south of the city of As-Suwayda, which led to burning and damaging the car in addition to putting out a number of fires that broke out with dry weeds in separate locations between citizens' homes inside the city One of them damaged a number of olive trees at the site, according to the regiment commander, Nayef Al-Shaar.

The firefighting teams, in cooperation with the people, in the previous period, put out many of the fires that broke out in separate areas in the governorate of As-Suwayda, some of which affected thousands of dunams of agricultural land, field crops, fruit and forest trees, and dry herbs before they were able to control it, the last of which was a few days ago in the forest of Hebran village, renewed within two days and came on Hundreds of acres between oak trees and herbs.

Source: sena

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