Hama-Sana
With continuous efforts that lasted more than 48 hours, fire brigades and crews managed to extinguish a huge fire that broke out in the forests of Abu Clifon, Harah Tahoun Halawa and Ain Al-Kroum in the rugged area of Al-Ghab in Hama governorate.
In a statement to SANA correspondent today, Dr. Hassan Fares, Director of Forestry at the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, who supervised the suppression operations, estimated the area of forests that were devoured by the fire with hundreds of acres of trees and shrubs such as oaks, rice and oak. Fire and difficulty extinguishing.
Major General Said Al-Awad, head of the civil defense in Syria, said that a number of mechanisms and elements of the civil defense were deployed to prevent the spread of the fire to neighboring forests, pointing out that the steep terrain of the fire site made it difficult for the fire crews to arrive, although the fire has been extinguished. Region to deal with any potential outbreak in the coming hours.
The director of the General Authority for the management and development of the forest, said that the outbreak of the fire was an effective act to log the forest, which takes decades to compensate, pointing out that "investigations are underway to identify and identify those involved in the fabrication of these fires and punish them."
Participated in extinguishing the fire, which broke out the day before yesterday and the vast areas of forest wealth teams and fire engines from the provinces of Hama, Latakia and Tartous.
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