Hama-sana
For the second day in a row, the teams and mechanisms of the Hama and Masyaf Fire Brigade and the Civil Defense were struggling to control the big fire that broke out in the Bireh Al-Jarrad forest and Ain Al-Bayda Junction in the countryside of Masyaf, but the intensity of the winds, the ruggedness of the area, and the high temperatures hindered the efforts made for this.
Colonel Thaer Al-Hassan, Commander of the Hama Fire Brigade, described in a statement to SANA's reporter the operations to put out the fire as difficult and arduous because the area in which the fire extends is very rugged and steep and almost empty of access roads, indicating that areas are currently being dealt with in the creeping fires in the high mountains at Sheikh Zaitoun site The Prophet Matthew pointed out that reinforcements of firefighting vehicles and their crews were brought to the village of Al-Mushrifa, which the fire is heading towards to besiege the fire and cut its lines.
For his part, Eng. Rafiq Aqil, a member of the Executive Office for the Agriculture Sector in Hama, explained in a similar statement that the efforts of the firefighting teams are currently focused on preventing the spread of the fire to the village of Al-Mushrifa, the villages and adjacent sites, indicating that the rugged terrain of the area and the high temperature of the weather make it difficult to extinguish the fire that occurred on large areas of Perennial oak, cypress and pine trees.
And Abdel Moein Sattif, director of the forests in the cultivation of Hama, mentioned earlier in a statement to SANA's correspondent that the fire situation in the vicinity of Al-Jarad beer was exacerbated by the increased speed of the winds that pushed the fire to the eastern slope of the Masyaf Mountains, explaining that the fire began to descend in the forest areas from the axis of Sheikh Zaitoun hill towards The villages of Al-Malaz have gathered in spite of the great efforts of the firefighters for 24 continuous hours.
Setif stressed the urgent necessity to expand efforts by the Haraj fire stations in other governorates for fear of the continued pace of winds and the expansion of fires towards residential areas, explaining that more than 12 tanks from the cultivation of Hama, Al-Ghab, and the Hama fire brigade are participating in extinguishing the fire in addition to the participation of dozens of firefighting workers, including elements from Tartous Fire Brigade.
In the same context, Ghayath Al-Rashed, head of the Agricultural Society in the village of Bireh Al-Jarad, estimated the green spaces that were consumed by the fire at more than 2000 dunums, indicating that the ruggedness of the area and the intensity of the winds contributed to the widening of the range of fire and its extension to neighboring areas such as Haraj Al-Majwi, Shamsa, Al-Malaz, and Sheikh Zaitoun, pointing out that the tanks and firefighting cadres are working on Cut off the fire lines from the village of Bireh Al-Jard and besiege the fire.
The fire broke out yesterday afternoon in the woods surrounding the town of Bireh Al-Jarad in the western countryside of Hama, where firefighting teams have been striving since that time to surround the fire and prevent it from spreading.
