Forest fire continues in Gori Municipality, firefighters and three helicopters in operation
Rescuers and firefighter brigades from all municipalities of the Shida Kartli region of Georgia have been involved in the process. Photo: Emergency Management Service.
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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.
Rescuers and firefighter brigades from all municipalities of the Shida Kartli region of Georgia have been involved in the process.
Volunteers are also helping to extinguish fire.
No open fire is observed at the moment as the natural disaster has been localized.
Three helicopters of Georgia’s Border Police department are being used to combat the fire.
Georgia’s Borjomi gorge was hit by severe massive fire in August, 2017. Several thousands of people were engaged in a firefighting operation including 1,000 soldiers from the Eastern Command of the Georgian Armed Forces, 1,500 Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani firefighters, rescuers and rangers, 650 representatives of the Georgian Interior Ministry’s special tasks groups and 900 emergency servicemen and doctors.
A fire also broke out in the forest of Ozurgeti, in Georgia's western region of Guria in April, 2019. The fire affected about 30 hectares in the village of Shemokmedi.
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.
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 massive forest fire that broke out a week ago in Georgia’s Borjomi Gorge has been extinguished, but the special headquarters that was set up upon the Prime Minister’s order to handle the disaster remains in the gorge to follow the developments.
UPDATED: It is the third day that a massive forest fire which broke out in the Borjomi Gorge is still raging in Central Georgia. The latest estimations say that tens of hectares of forestland is on fire.
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.