Homs-Sana
The firefighting teams in Homs Governorate continue to extinguish the fire that spread yesterday evening from the Lebanese territories towards the outskirts of Akum village in the Al-Qusayr area in the southwestern Homs countryside.
Abdul Masih Duaij, head of the Forestry Department in the Homs Agriculture Directorate, said in a statement to SANA reporter today that the firefighting teams were able to besiege the fire and are currently working on following it up and putting out and cooling the fire spots in Jabal Akum and the summit of Harf Al-Hawa mountain on the Syrian-Lebanese border to prevent it from renewing as a result of winds and high temperatures.
Daij pointed out the difficulty of dealing with the fire due to the difficult terrain, winds and temperatures in the area.