Interior Minister praises aviation for their work, says spread area of forest fire in Borjomi decreases

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.