Beirut-Sana
The fires that broke out today in the woods of Wadi Al-Hour and the logic of Drib in the Akkar region in northern Lebanon have expanded due to the speed of the winds, which led to the devouring of fruit and forestry trees.
He appealed to the people who participate in the firefighting operation concerned to expedite the fire that reached the vicinity of the houses.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that a large fire also broke out in forest and fruit trees and olive groves in the forests of the southern border town of Sheiklar with occupied Palestine, where the Lebanese army dispatched a helicopter to help extinguish the fire that is expanding rapidly in the lands due to the dry northern winds.
Several villages in Tire district witnessed wholesale fires, as the fire approached the houses, suffocation cases were recorded for a number of paramedics, and a number of residents in residential buildings near the site of the fire were evacuated.
In the towns of Joya, Dibal, Maaroub, Barish, Janata, and Deir Qanun al-Nahr, sporadic fires broke out, and large areas of olive trees were destroyed by fire.
Several fires also broke out in the battle town of Al-Mashhad, and the fire surrounded the center of the Malaysian battalion operating within the framework of the United Nations "UNIFIL", surrounded by areas of olive trees that destroyed most of them.