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An operation is underway to extinguish the fire in Alexandropolis, which broke out at 6.30 p.m. in a forest area in the area of the Melia and Nipsa settlement.
According Fire Department officer who spoke to LiFO.gr the fire is ongoing, however they have not yet made any suggestions for the evacuation of the settlements.
Firefighters remain on the scene trying to put out the fire and if all goes well it will be reassessed in the morning.
At present, 34 firefighters participate in the operation with 11 vehicles, a group of pedestrians, while with the start of the fire, the fire fighting helicopter based at the Alexandroupolis “Demokritos” airport threw water.
“We are facing a large fire front in an inaccessible area, with a total area of about five kilometers, which due to the strong winds that blow in the area is spreading very quickly.
There is a total provision at all levels and the work of the firefighters is assisted from the first moment by machines from the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace, as well as the Municipality of Alexandroupolis, while the assistance of the army is requested.
The forces will be strengthened throughout the night, ”the regional deputy governor of Evros and president of the Prefectural Civil Protection Coordinator, Dimitris Petrovic, told APE-MPE.
According to Mr. Petrovic, attempts are already being made to create a fire safety zone to stop the fire, which is directed towards the Nipsa settlement. “If the flames pass through the reservoir, there is a danger that the settlement will be threatened and we are “in disposition of the possibility of its evacuation”, it affirms characteristically.
Mr. Petrovic points out that “the fact that in the last ten days we had eleven fires in Evros, five of which in the southern part of the prefecture, and even large ones, such as the Aesimi fire, which took a great deal of amount of air, many questions arise. support.
The fire that broke out today with a risk index of 4, but also the fact that we find, in previous fires that occurred in places of immigrants where traces of a small camp were found, are the elements that concern us, because it is unprecedented in all these years have eleven fires within ten days ”, concludes the president of the SOPP and deputy governor of Evros.
For his part, the Alexandroupolis forester, George Pistolas, affirms from the place of the fire, to APE-MPE, that “the fire is moving towards the southwest on two fronts, with the main front facing the Dipotamos dam, in the area of Drymos.
Forces, earthmoving and fire fighting teams are heading to the Dipotamos dam to stop the flames. At the same time, an earth-moving machine is operating on the second front of the fire, in the “Kavouratzis” stream. As for the vegetation, he points out that there is diversity in the area, holm oak forest, acacia plantations and agricultural crops ”.
#Fire in a forest area in the Melia area, Alexandroupolis. They mobilized 34 # firefighters with 1 group of pedestrian section and 11 vehicles.
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