Hama-sana
The Syrian Arab Army helicopters began to participate in extinguishing the fire that broke out in the woods located between the villages of Al-Helouna and Al-Qaba in the Masyaf area in the western countryside of Hama governorate to support the firefighting teams and the people to control the fire.
The Sanaa correspondent in Hama reported that two helicopters had taken off from Hama airport that transported water from the Sourani Dam in Tartous countryside and carried out several sorties and threw large quantities of water on the burning lines and extinguished them, which contributed to limiting the expansion of fires in high mountainous areas that are difficult for firefighting teams to deal with as a result Rugged cliffs.
In statements to the SANA reporter, a number of residents confirmed that the strong winds and dense dry grasses contribute to fueling the fire and the difficulty of extinguishing it, noting that the fires that broke out a week ago in several areas in the western countryside of the governorate have so far devoured hundreds of dunams of oak and pine and perennial cypress forests and fruit trees, especially olives. Which its owners were preparing to reap its benefits soon.
In the axis of the towns of Hazour and Ein Halakim, southwest of Masyaf, firefighting teams and civil defense personnel, with the support of the Syrian Arab Army and the people, were able to control more than 90 percent of the fires in the vicinity of the two towns and prevented their extension towards the homes of the people, with extraordinary efforts for nearly two days.
In the eastern mountains overlooking the towns and villages of the western countryside of Hama Governorate, large fires erupted, not witnessed before, in the region, which destroyed large areas of forests and old trees as a result of the high temperatures that accompanied the speed of the winds and the rugged areas that limited the ability of firefighting teams to deal with the fires and extinguish them.
