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

A warehouse of electrical equipment caught fire in Tbilisi’s Didi Digomi district last night, injuring one.

Over 70 firefighters and 14 firefighting machines gathered to extinguish the fire that suddenly broke out at the Lilo market on Thursday night. Investigation is underway to establish the reasons of the fire.

Up to 150 firefighters, 30 foresters and a border police helicopter have been brought in to extinguish a fire in the Borjomi Gorge in central Georgia.

A fire that broke out in forests in Ozurgeti, in Georgia's western region of Guria late last night has been extinguished. The Emergency Management Service said the fire affected some 30ha in the village of Shemokmedi.

A forest fire that erupted yesterday evening still continues near the village of Sakavre, in Gori Municipality. Firefighters and helicopters worked all night long as heavy smoke was observed over an area of 40 hectares. 

Firefighters are still working to fully extinguish the fire that broke out in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region a couple of days ago. The Emergency Management Service of the Georgian Interior Ministry said the fire has been contained and there is no threat of its spreading further. 

A 1,000-ton fuel reservoir has inflamed at an oil terminal in Samtredia municipality in western Georgia earlier today

Forest fires are raging at seven locations around the country, the Georgian Emergency Management Service reports, calling upon hunters, locals gathering pine cones and fruits and backpackers to be “maximally cautious.”

Ten active fires have been reported around Georgia today, mostly on the lower layers of forests, the Georgian Emergency Management Service stated earlier today. 

Fires in the Ateni Gorge of Georgia, Kvemo Kartli region, have been extinguished after a four-day effort from about 300 firefighters, the Georgian Emergency Management Service reported earlier today.

Georgian firefighters are trying to extinguish a forest fire near the Khaishi village in Mestia municipality of western Georgia. 

Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that broke out in the fields of Georgia’s western Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti municipality.

One hundred of 105 fires in western Georgia have been extinguished by more than 500 firefighters, while the fire still rages in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Gali district also in western part of the country.