Forest fire broke out on Saturday in the early morning in the south of Croatia near Split, Representatives have announced. As a result of the fire, there were evacuations of residents and tourists from the surrounding villages, TASR reports, according to reports of DPA and AFP and portal Večeneji.hr.
The fire broke out in the area of Pisak and Marušiči about 40 kilometers south of Split and “could not get under control”, said the local fire brigade. Both of these sites are popular among tourists. All approximately 200 inhabitants of Marušiči and all tourists who are currently there were currently evacuating.
“The situation is very serious. We have activated the state forces and the police,” told Hina Commander of the Firefighters Slavko Tucakovič. Two extinguishing aircraft also deployed for extinguishing fire. There were approximately 200 firefighters in deployment.
According to representatives of the Split-Dalmatian County At least 12 dwellings and several vehicles have already burned. Deputy local police chief Siniš Mihanovich said at a press conference that police “intensively investigate suspicions of arson”.
Witnesses who found themselves in a column at the Makarska Highway said that Police stops all quads for suspicion that the driver of the vehicle of this type of vehicle intentionally set up a fire, writes in the evening. According to unofficial information of the Croatian media, the police have already shown several people. The Croatian Auto Club (HAK) informed that there was also a local road leading along the coast in the section between the cities of Omis and Duča.
Croatian state television HRT specified that In the past two days, the fires in the skill of 17 locations around the towns of Makarska and Omis in the south of the Adriatic coast have burned. Drought, heat and strong wind contributes to the spread of fires over the area full of pine forests and complicate the efforts of firefightersresults from local media reports. Information on possible injuries or the exact cause of the fire was not immediately known.
