2024-06-19 07:39:23
In Turkey, 42 fires have been registered over the previous 24 hours, half of them in forests.
As Day.Az stories as regards to TASS, the nation’s Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Ibrahim Yumakli instructed reporters about this.
“At the moment, 42 fires occurred. Of those, 22 have been in forests and 20 outdoors forest zones. 5 fires are categorised as high-risk. These are fires within the provinces of Burdur, Çanakkale, Sakarya, Manisa and Uşak. Fires are at the moment ongoing in Çanakkale and Uşak, “all the remaining are below management,” the minister mentioned.
Yumakli identified that 94 hearth engines and 540 hearth service personnel, in addition to helicopters and amphibious plane, together with these offered by the republic’s armed forces, are concerned in extinguishing the hearth in Canakkale, the place the Dardanelles Strait is positioned. The village of Buyukanafartalar was evacuated as a precaution and there are not any different threats. The hearth, he mentioned, affected an space of about 300 hectares.
The Dardanelles Strait was closed to ships within the north-south route in the course of the day in order that firefighting plane might accumulate water from the ocean. Based on the Basic Directorate of the Turkish Coast Guard, up to now, “site visitors by means of the strait in each instructions has been restored and is carried out with out restrictions.”
A forest hearth in Usak province in western Turkey has not but been introduced below management. Based on Yumakli, they started to extinguish it eight minutes after the alarm was obtained. A helicopter, 33 hearth engines and 161 firefighters are concerned within the combat towards the hearth.
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