Firefighters dispatched to combat "strong fires" in central Georgia's Razmati Valley
Helicopter crews are involved in firefighting efforts in the central Georgian location, which was also affected by a separate fire on Sunday. Screenshot from an Emergency Management Service video.
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Firefighters have been dispatched to combat "strong fires" in Razmati Valley, located in central Georgia's Shida Kartli region, with helicopters involved in efforts.
The Emergency Management Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has reported receiving calls about "powerful smoke" and "open fire" in the valley before emergency teams responded to the situation.
The service said fire and rescue groups from Gori Municipality had been dispatched and were assisted by teams mobilised from other municipalities and regions.
Two helicopters of border police were also sent to assist in the firefighting efforts, with fires affecting areas with coniferous tree cover in the valley.
The latest development follows fires in two other locations over the weekend. Firefighters successfully put out fires in the Akhalisopeli forest - located in the Kvareli Municipality in Georgia's east - and near the Sakavre village in central Georgia's Gori Municipality on Sunday.
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 fire that broke out in a state-owned building in the central district of Aghmashenebeli in Tbilisi late at night has been localised. Representative of the Emergency Management Service Mamuka Kirimelashvili said 21 fire-fighting brigades have been mobilized to extinguish the fire. Over a hundred fire-fighters were mobilised to put out the fire that had spread over some 1,500 sq.m.
A fire has broken out in the forest of Chailuri in Kakheti region in eastern Georgia earlier today, which according to the Georgia’s Interior Ministry’s Emergency Service has been localised. Fire-fighters who immediately went to deal with the fire have taken care to prevent the further escalation.
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 erupted over about 0.5 hectares of forest lands on a mountain in Georgia’s western region of Svaneti.
140 firefighters and 30 local employees of the forest agency are trying to extinguish a forest fire near the village of Tskhumari, in Georgia’s mountainous Svaneti region.
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.”
The Emergency Management Service reported that forest fires have been extinguished near the village of Khevrali in the municipality of Mestia in Svaneti region and in the village of Didi Riketi in the municipality of Khulo in Adjara region in western Georgia earlier today.