On Tuesday, the Syrian government has asked the European Union to help fight forest fires, which have been plagued by the province of Lazikia lying in the northwest of Syria for the sixth day. This was announced on Tuesday by the Syrian Ministry of Emergency Situations and Candling Catastrophies, saying that On the same day, the fire extinguishers provided by the Cyprus will also join the rescue services. TASR informs about this, referring to AFP and DPA.
So far, 16 aircraft and dozens of ground teams have been deployed to extinguish the flames. Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey are also helping extinguishing. According to the Ministry, the fires have already spread to an area of 14,000 hectares. Extinguishing is complicated by strong winds, unexploded ammunition and landmarks. The cause of the outbreak is unknown.
For fear of spreading fires as a result of strong wind offices They evacuated 25 families to safety. In the province of Lazikia was preventive evacuated at least seven municipalities. According to the Syrian branch of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) The fires affected approximately 5,000 people.
Syria is still recovering from the civil war, which lasted almost 14 years and ended last December by depicting the long -time dictator Bashar Assad. As a result of climate change, the country is plagued by increasingly intense drought, heat waves and lack of rainfall. According to the UN Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) Syria has not experienced such poor climatic conditions in the last 60 years.
