Islam Times - Syria Wildfires Consume Large Areas, Firefighting Efforts Underway

Islam Times - Syria’s firefighting and civil defense teams, in cooperation with the locals continued to confront the wildfires in the forests surrounding Nobbul al-Khatib area in Hama northwestern countryside amid very difficult conditions due to the high speed of the wind and its changeable direction.

Earlier on Sunday, the firefighting teams and the civil defense managed to extinguish a massive fire that has been on for the past four days in the forests of Biret al-Jird in Massyaf countryside in Hama province.

Director of Forests Protection Center in Hama told SANA reporter that the firefighting teams and the civil defense have extinguished a massive fire that erupted from four days ago in the forests of Biret al-Jird and it extended to al-Nahda forests and al-Majwi al-Mashrafa, Ayn al-Baida and al-Fandara in Massyaf countryside.

The fire consumed large areas of the forests and the fire spots in the direction of Qassyieh, the firefighting teams and the civil defense are working on extinguishing the fire.