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With strong winds not calm down and rekindle scattered fires burning over an area of several thousand acres, fire brigade reinforcement continues second night make superhuman efforts to put out the fire that broke out Tuesday in a forest area between the settlements Melias and Nipsas, in Evros.
With the departure by arrival of the night of assistance from the air of four firefighting aircraft Both helicopters, which continuously dropped water throughout the day, will operate at the site. 178 firefighters with 41 vehicles, eleven groups of pedestrians, two of which are in the air, while assisting volunteer firefighters, construction machinery and water tanks from the City Council.
“Most of the forces are concentrated in fire zone over the reservoir located in the Forest to stop, as last night, the course of the fire, which is rekindled by the strong winds, which lead it to the settlement of Nipsa, which until now has been kept safe. Significant number of machines Local government projects create fire zones around the settlement, ground firefighting forces are reinforced with infantry sections from other Regions, while throughout the effort the army with its machines also participates.
Unfortunately, the the weather is not an ally of the fire suppression effort and the achievement of the demarcation of the fire and its extinction depends to a large extent on the direction and intensity of the air “, tells APE-MPE the ranger of Alexandroupolis, George Pistolas, who together with the regional lieutenant governor Alexandroupolis Giannis Zambouki, help the fire service coordinate the response to the fire.
