Georgian Interior Minister inspects measures against Borjomi forest fire
The fire has been localised in the direction of nearby villages, the Minister noted, with vehicle crews mobilised to further prevent it from spreading to populated areas. Photo: Police.ge.
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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.
The Minister said more than 1,200 professionals were using hardware mobilised for combating the fire, noting in case of absence of wind, fire sources would be limited by Tuesday.
Gomelauri said professionals from Internal Affairs, Defence and Environmental Protection ministries were involved in the efforts, with around 120 units of equipment, including heavy hardware and tractors, being employed in laying the road to enable firefighters to reach the sources of fire.
Photo: Police.ge
The fire has been localised in the direction of nearby villages, the Minister noted, with vehicle crews mobilised to further prevent it from spreading to populated areas.
Together with Gomelauri, Minister of Defence Juansher Burchuladze and Minister of Environment Protection Otar Shamugia were also present in the municipality to observe the work.
The efforts have been ongoing since first firefighter response teams and a border police helicopter reacted to calls over the fire in a forest near the municipality village of Kvabiskhevi, with the fire raging since Friday.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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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.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Wednesday extended his gratitude to Türkiye for offering assistance in putting out the Borjomi forest fire in the country’s central-western part.
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Major General Giorgi Matiashvili, the Chief of the Georgian Defence Forces inspected the measures being taken against the forest fire in the central-western Georgia’s Borjomi municipality by military personnel on Thursday.
The aviation worked at a “very high” level and its results are visible, as the spread area of the forest fire in central-western Georgia’s Borjomi municipality, that has been raging since Friday, has decreased “relatively”, Vakhtang Gomelauri, the Interior Minister of Georgia told reporters on Wednesday.
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