Latakia-SANA
The firefighting staff in Lattakia governorate put out two fires that broke out in fruitful trees in the Saqoubin neighborhood in the city and the village of Shabtalia in the governorate’s countryside.
Brigadier Jalal Daoud, director of civil defense in Latakia, said in a statement to SANA reporter that mechanisms from the fire brigade and civil defense participated in putting out the fire that erupted with fruit trees and olives near the gas station in Saqoubin neighborhood in Lattakia and were able to control it before it reached the residential houses, pointing out that Damage is estimated at 5 acres.
The head of the Shabtalia municipality, Zahr al-Din Zureik, indicated that the Latakia Fire Brigade and firefighting personnel in the Forestry Department of the Directorate of Agriculture, in cooperation with the people, put out a fire that broke out in lands planted with olives in the village of Shabtalia in the countryside of the governorate, pointing out that the damage was limited to an estimated area of 3 dunums planted with olives and that the people They participated in extinguishing the fire using mechanisms and tanks.