Borjomi fire in central-western Georgia contained, no threats to settlements - Emergency Management Service
A forest fire erupted last Friday in Georgia’s central-western Borjomi municipality. Photo: Defence Ministry press office
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A forest fire in central-western Borjomi municipality of Georgia has been contained and nearby settlements are now safeguarded, the Emergency Management Service of Georgia said on Monday.
Four border police helicopters are extinguishing fire in Borjomi. Photo: Emergency Management Service press office.
The agency said 600 professionals, including 300 firefighters, of the Special Tasks Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were trying to extinguish the blaze which erupted last Friday near the villages of Kvabiskhevi and Zoreti.
To prevent further spread of the fire, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Sunday instructed the country’s Defence Forces, the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure, and the Ministry of Environment to get involved in combating the fire.
Four border police helicopters and more than 50 fire engines were present at the scene to extinguish the fire, the Service said.
The first response teams of the firefighters and border police helicopter responded to the calls to put out a fire on Sunday in the forest near Georgia's central-western Borjomi municipality’s village of Kvabishkevi.
Hot and mostly rainless weather will remain across Georgia until Sunday, the National Environmental Agency warned the public on Monday.
More than 1,200 professionals from different state bodies, around 120 units of equipment and four border police helicopters are providing “maximum efforts” to put out the forest fire in Georgia’s central-western Borjomi municipality, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Vakhtang Gomelauri, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, inspected the measures being taken against forest fire in central-western Georgia’s Borjomi municipality on Monday.
In a move marking international assistance to Georgian state bodies, a specialised Turkish firefighting aircraft has joined efforts to extinguish the forest fire in central-western Georgia’s Borjomi municipality that has been raging since Friday, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced on Wednesday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Wednesday lent support to his Georgian counterpart Ilia Darchiashvili in combating the forest fire in central-western Georgia’s Borjomi municipality.