1,200 professionals, 4 helicopters committed to put out Borjomi fire - Interior Ministry
A fire erupted in Georgia’s central-western Borjomi municipality last Friday. Photo: Defence Ministry press office
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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.
The Ministry said the blaze, which erupted last Friday, was “still difficult to reach” in several locations, adding roadworks were ongoing to pave access to the locations for the firefighters, along with professionals from the ministries of Defence, Regional Development and Internal Affairs.
Video by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
Visiting the municipality on Monday, Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri said that in case of absence of wind, fire sources would be limited by Tuesday.
To prevent the 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.
The blaze erupted near the villages of Kvabiskhevi and Zoreti in Borjomi municipality, before spreading further due to strong winds.
Hot and mostly rainless weather will remain across Georgia until Sunday, the National Environmental Agency warned the public on Monday.
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.
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.
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.
The Emergency Management Service of Georgia on Wednesday called on the public to “act cautiously” to prevent fires breaking out in the country, citing the National Environment Agency as saying hot and dry weather, as well as strong winds, were forecast across the country until next Monday.
The Georgian Ministry of Defence on Thursday sent additional 100 servicemembers to the central-western Borjomi municipality to combat the blaze that erupted last Friday, with the unit joining more than 1,200 professionals from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure, the Ministry of Environment and the Defence Forces.
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.