Forest fires raging at seven locations in Georgia
The Georgian Emergency Management Service has urged people to use maximum caution and avoid the fires. Photo: Emergency Management Service press office.
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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 agency says that as of now their personnel are fighting fires in Mestia, Svaneti region, Oni municipality in Racha, Ambrolauri municipality in Racha, Khulo municipality in Adjara and Martvili municipality in Samegrelo region.
The lower layer of forests is dry due to the dry weather in the autumn which carries high risks of spreading fires easily. That is we why we urge those entering forests be as careful as possible to not cause fires,” the agency said.
The agency said that 44 cases of fires have been reported around the country this month alone, with 1,500 firefighters involved in putting them out.
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.
Firefighters have been dispatched to combat "strong fires" in Razmati Valley, located in central Georgia's Shida Kartli region, with helicopters involved in efforts.
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.
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.