Firefighters still trying to put out forest fire in Gori Municipality
Three border police helicopters are also helping firefighters combat the fire near the village of Sakavre, in Georgia’s Shida Kartli region. Photo: Emergency Management Service/Facebook
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Firefighters are still working to fully extinguish the fire that broke out in a forest near the village of Sakavre, 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.
The situation is under full control”, the Emergency Management Service reported.
Three border police helicopters are also helping firefighters combat the fire.
Photo: Emergency Management Service
A fire also broke out in the forest near the village of Akhalsopeli, in Georgia’s eastern region of Kakheti.
Firefighters and a border police helicopter are trying to put it out as well.
The Emergency Management Service has released a video from the village of Akhalsopeli today:
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.
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.
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 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.