A major fire in the northwestern countryside of As-Suwayda and firefighting teams control 80 percent of it

As-Suwayda-Sana

The firefighting teams, in cooperation with the families, continue their efforts to put out a big fire that broke out this evening in the endosperm governorate, which spread in agricultural lands between villages and ancient villages, Dama, Green and Lebanon in the northwestern countryside of the governorate, and 80% of the fire was controlled.

The head of the preparedness office in the endosperm governorate, Dr. Mubarak Salam, stated that with the concerted efforts of firefighting mechanisms and elements in the Sweida fire brigade, the Shahba, the hydrocarbons company, the civil defense, the agriculture directorate, the forestry, water and water resources department in cooperation with the people of the region and their own mechanisms, more than 80 percent of the fire was controlled while work continues Extinguishing, isolating and cooling to prevent its expansion and spread into new areas.

Salam explained that the fire broke out among the dry land herbs starting from the west of the ancient town and extended towards the lands of Dama, Green, and Leben, and extended to large areas, most of them covered with dry herbs, and came on field crops of wheat and barley, and the affected areas were not yet counted.

For his part, a source in the Sweida Fire Brigade pointed out that the fire suppression and encirclement work continues to limit its extension, pointing out that it is located within the rugged rocky resort area, which makes the possibility of extinguishing the fire mechanisms to the places of fire spreading in some areas difficult where it is used to deal with it with individual equipment and means .

Whereas, the commander of the fire brigade in the civil fire brigade, Sergeant Nawras Emad, mentioned that the nature of the rocky area, the density of dry grass and the rise in temperatures accelerated the spread of the fire.