Homs-Sana
Homs fire brigade extinguished today a fire in the forest trees at Al-Hawash junction on the Homs-Tartous highway.
Engineer Elias Bitar, head of the Talkalakh Forestry Department, told SANA today that the fire broke out in agricultural land full of thorns and spread to the forest trees adjacent to the Tartous Highway near the junction of the town of Al-Hawash and damaged about two dunums of eucalyptus trees.
Bitar explained that the fire brigades managed to extinguish the fire completely and prevented its spread to other lands.
