Nine fire hotspots remain in western Georgia, helicopter involved
Human negligence has been named as one of the reasons for the recent fires. Photo: Emergency Management Service press office.
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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.
Mostly fields are on fire and strong winds are helping the fires spread.
Fires have been reported in Racha, Svaneti, Samegrelo and Kharagauli regions.
257 fires have been reported in Georgia since January 4, 2021.
248 of the 257 fires have been extinguished.
Two hundred and forty three fires have been reported in Georgia in the past 48 hours, mostly in the western part of the country.
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.
Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that broke out in the fields of Georgia’s western Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti municipality.
Firefighters have rescued five people, including three minors from a fire at a flat on the ground floor of a residential building in Mukhiani, Tbilisi.
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.
Three out of the six remaining wildfires in western Georgia have been contained, the Emergency Management Service of the Georgian Interior Ministry announced earlier today. Meanwhile, local Abkhaz news agency Apsnypress has also reported that the fire approaching homes in Gagra has been contained.
The Emergency Management Service of Georgia has warned the public about the rise in air temperature in Georgia’s east in the coming days, noting the development would increase the risk of forest and field fires.