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The Homs Agriculture Directorate continues to implement its plan, which includes building “fire lines” roads in the forested areas of “near Ali” in the western countryside of the governorate, which was exposed on the tenth of this month to fires that affected large areas of its forests.
Elias Bitar, Head of the Tal Kalakh Haraj Department, said in a statement to SANA's correspondent today that in cooperation with the General Company for Roads and Bridges Direct, a network of fire lines was constructed in an area near Ali to enable the firefighting mechanisms to easily reach it because the difficulty of the terrain was the biggest obstacle in the process of extinguishing the fire that broke out in The tenth of this month.
He indicated that the number of roads requiring fire lines is 6, with a total length of 6320 meters, including a road at the Jabal Al-Jouba site with a length of 1700 meters, the Jabal Al-Tereza and suspended road with a length of 1500 meters, the Jabal Al-Tawarea road with a length of 600 meters, the road of Wadi Al-Maghawar site with a length of 600 meters and the road of the Qanater site It separates Homs and Tartous Haraj, with a length of 1200 meters, and a road of a landfill near Ali, with a length of 762 meters.
Bitar indicated that all roads will be 6 meters wide and contain roundabouts so that fire engines can maneuver in the event of any fire in the future, indicating that the fire that broke out in the area near Ali reached an area of about 1,397 dunums of natural forests and fruit trees, of which 20 thousand bush oaks are seven years old and 9000 trees. Fruitful variety.
The Homs Agriculture Directorate had announced a plan to create fire lines in the western countryside of the governorate with the aim of securing a group of roads to facilitate the work of firefighting mechanisms in the event of any fire.