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170 firefighters, 2 helicopters brought in to put out forest fire in Gori Municipality

Forest fires have been a serious problem for Georgia over the past several years. Photo: Emergency Management Service/Facebook

Agenda.ge, 22 Aug 2019 - 22:27, Tbilisi,Georgia

A total of 170 firefighters, dozens of firefighting and emergency machines and two border police helicopters have been brought in to extinguish a fire in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region.

The fire has reportedly spread across some 40ha of a forest near the village of Sakavre, in Gori Municipality earlier today.

The firefighters from all the municipalities of Shida Kartli as well Samtskhe-Javakheti and Tbilisi are jointly trying to extinguish the fire. Photo: Emergency Management Service/Facebook

Photo: Emergency Management Service/Facebook

Forest fires have been a serious problem for Georgia over the past several years, and the country has needed foreign support to extinguish fires in different regions of the country.

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