100 of 105 fires extinguished in western Georgia, fire rages in Russian-occupied Gali
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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.
Largely fields have caught fire on Tbilisi-controlled territory, while a forest fire almost reached the houses of locals in the Gali district and the de facto authorities have decided to evacuate locals from the villages of Zemo Bargebi, Sida and Repo-Etseri.
The Emergency Management Service of Georgia reported earlier today that firefighters are trying to extinguish the remaining five hotspots in Racha, Samgerlo and Adjara regions.
The agency says that strong winds helped spread the fire.
More than 50 emergency units have been used to extinguish the fires.
Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that broke out in the fields of Georgia’s western Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti municipality.
Georgian firefighters have rescued three children from a burning apartment in Tbilisi’s Gldani district 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.
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.
Two hundred and forty three fires have been reported in Georgia in the past 48 hours, mostly in the western part of the country.
Nine hotspots of fires remain in western Georgia and 350 firefighters with 40 fire trucks and a border police helicopter are trying to extinguish them, the Georgian Emergency Management Service stated earlier today.
Georgian firefighters have contained three of the remaining seven fires in western and central Georgia.
The de facto authorities of the Russian-occupied Abkhazia region say that they do not need the support of the central Georgian government to extinguish raging forest fires in the area.
A fire that broke out at a warehouse building on Bogdan-Khmelnitski Street, Samgori district in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi earlier today has been extinguished.
Firefighters have been mobilised in Georgia’s eastern region of Kakheti due to an increased risk of forest and field fires, reports the Emergency Management Service of Georgia (EMS).
A fire that broke out at #6 Melikishvili Street in Tbilisi earlier today has been extinguished. A two-storey residential building has however burnt down leaving six families homeless.