A second fire was extinguished in the historic oasis of orchards of Palmyra

Palmyra-Sana

The elements of the Palmyra Agriculture and Exhaustion Authority extinguished the Syrian Gas Company, the Homs Fire Brigade and the competent authorities in Palmyra a second fire that broke out yesterday evening in the historic oasis of Palmyra of Palmyra after extinguishing the fire that affected two hundred hectares of palm trees and historical olive trees.

The assistant director of the Palmyra Department of Agriculture, Ahmed Youssef, told a SANA reporter that the second fire that broke out at five o'clock yesterday evening and continued until this morning has affected about ten hectares, so that the entire area that was damaged by the two fires is partially and totally totaled about two hundred and ten hectares of the estimated oasis area Four hundred and twenty hectares, noting that work is currently underway to cool the remains of tree stumps and herbs burned with water as firefighting mechanisms are still present on the site, fearing the return of the flames again in the oasis.

In turn, Alaa Mansour explained from the Syrian company’s gas company’s extinguishing of the Homs Fire Brigade that the team found great difficulties in controlling fires in the oasis of orchards of Palmyra as a result of the interconnecting of the orchards with each other and the presence of the separating walls between them in addition to the narrow and rugged roads and the intensity of the dry land and the strong winds contributed to Rapid fire spread.

For his part, Mohamed Saleh Mahmoud, head of an association in the Palmyra Agricultural Association, called for the necessity of reactivating the Palmyra Firefighting Center in order to control such fires with the required speed and mitigate as much damage as possible, calling on the farmers to return to their orchards and revitalize them again, especially after the return of the historic Afka Spring water to irrigate the oasis. .

The authorities concerned in Palmyra and Homs managed last Tuesday to control the massive fire that affected about two hundred hectares of the area of ​​the historic palm and olive oasis trees located on the southern outskirts of Palmyra and put it out.

It is reported that the orchards of Palmyra contain about two hundred palm trees and three hundred olive trees in addition to pomegranate trees and grape arbor.

Adnan Al-Khatib