Air assets involved to combat forest fires in eastern Kvareli municipality
A fire in eastern Kvareli municipality erupted on Friday. Photo: Defence Ministry press office
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Georgian border police helicopters have been involved in combating forest fires in the eastern Kvareli municipality, which erupted near the village of Shilda on Friday, the Georgian Emergency Management Service said on Saturday.
The agency noted that along with combating the fire sources, the firefighters and other professionals at the scene have been paving the way to the locations difficult to reach to put out the blaze.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday instructed the country’s Defence Forces to join the professionals combating the forest fires in Kvareli, aimed at preventing further spread of the blaze and a possible natural disaster, the Government Administration stated.
Media reports said deciduous trees were burning in the municipality near the locality’s alpine zone.
Rains are forecasted in the country starting Sunday, after hot and dry weather for more than a month across the country.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday instructed the country’s Defence Forces to join professionals combating forest fires in the eastern Kvareli municipality, the Government Administration said.
A fire in the Shavnadaba forest near the Georgian capital of Tbilisi has been localised with the help of air assets, including specialised Turkish firefighting aircraft which have been combating Borjomi forest fires in the country’s central-western municipality since last Wednesday, the Georgian Emergency Management Service said on Monday.
The number of neutralised sources of fire in Georgia’s central-western Borjomi Municipality exceeds those still active on the eighth day after the eruption of the blaze, the Georgian Interior Ministry said on Friday.
The threat of fire spreading has been removed and the population is not in danger, Temur Mgebrishvili, the Head of the Emergency Situations Management Service said while commenting on the forest fire, that erupted near the village of Shilda in Kvareli municipality in eastern Kakheti region on Friday.
Sources of fire in the Nafetvrebi Forest in the vicinity of Tsavkisi and Tskneti, two holiday locations surrounding Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, have been eliminated following work of firefighting crews, the Emergency Management Service said on Monday.
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.
The National Forestry Agency on Wednesday called for caution among the public to prevent fires from breaking out due to the summer heatwave across the country.