According to a spokesman in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Turínia, when a flame area was finally extinguished, the wind burned the following, a few meters away.
The state of Turíngia in in the center of Germany, the most affected by forest fires, declared the “state of crisis”, despite a slight improvement of the situation, which also reaches the states of Saxony and Brandeburg.
The announcement took place on Sunday, due to the inability of the firefighters to control the largest forest fire to affect the tour of more than three decades, whose smoke was taken by the wind to BErlim, about 300 kilometers from the region.
The wind has been, by the way, one of the main enemies of fire -fighting teams. According to a spokesman in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, in Turínia, when a flame area was finally extinguished, the wind burned the following, a few meters away.
“Our strengths are exhausted”
“Our forces are exhausted,” said district administrator Marko Wolfram, hoping that the emergency staff could be reduced from 500 on Sunday to 300 today.
“From this afternoon, we are looking at the future with a little more optimism,” said a spokesman for the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, adding that firefighters believe they could soon extinguish some isolated fires.
A similar number of firefighters have fought the flames in northern Saxony, between the cities of Dresden and Leipzig, where much of the 2,800 hectares of natural landscape of the Gohrischheide region has already been consumed by the flames.
