Interior Minister praises aviation for their work, says spread area of forest fire in Borjomi decreases
The Minister of Internal Affairs expressed his gratitude to Türkiye for their assistance to the Georgian state bodies, providing a specialised firefighting aircraft that has joined efforts to extinguish the fire, and also thanked the Armenian and Azerbaijani side for offering their help with the equipment. Photo: Interpressnews.ge
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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.
Gomelauri said the localisation of the fire depended on the weather, as helicopters were not able to operate in the wind and also noted the area of the fire has not gone “beyond the red zone” and there has not been any danger of the spread of the fire to the populated area or the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline.
The Minister of Internal Affairs expressed his gratitude to Türkiye for their assistance to the Georgian state bodies, providing a specialised firefighting aircraft that has joined efforts to extinguish the fire, and also thanked the Armenian and Azerbaijani side for offering their help with the equipment.
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The main sources of fire in Georgia’s central-western Borjomi Municipality have been eliminated on the ninth day after the eruption of the blaze, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
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Levan Davitashvili, the Georgian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, on Thursday said “all possible means” had been mobilised to bring the blaze that erupted last Friday in the central-western Borjomi municipality under control.
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.
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.
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.
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.