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The fires continue to devour tens of kilometers of agricultural areas and forests in separate areas of Lattakia and Tartous, Homs, amid the almost total inability of the regime authorities to extinguish them in light of the expansion of their area due to strong winds. and their access to civilian homes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited sources as saying that the village of Beit Aarkoush in the Mashta Al Helou area of the Tartous countryside was completely burned down, in light of the fire’s spread in the area and its arrival in other villages. In the area.
The fire also caught fire in the village of Al-Juwaikhat in the Ayyun al-Wadi area of the western Homs countryside, destroying large areas of agricultural gardens and civilian homes. The fires in Banias also caused large losses in greenhouses and burned homes of citizens, amid fears that the fires would spread to other homes.
The number of fires in the Lattakia governorate countryside since early Friday morning has reached 85, and firefighting crews managed to extinguish the small ones, while the other reached people’s homes.
The director of the Forest Department of the Lattakia Agriculture Directorate, Basem Duba, said: “Fires continue to burn in the regions and villages of Wadi Qandil, Umm al-Tayyar, al-Basit, and the tobacco warehouses in Qardaha, the villages of Zintout and al-Ramah, near Qardaha hospital, and in the villages of Mazira and Dahr-Dahr, as well as in Dahr-Dahr, Dahr The villages of Habeit, Bekas and Al-Haffeh, where the fire is severe, as well as in Bashili, Qurafais, Kafr Dabil and Seribiyin, Jableh.
The pro-regime “Masyaf News Network” said the young man, Othman, died today as a result of suffocation in a fire in the Latakia countryside while helping firefighters.
Conflict and environment expert Wim Zwigenburg tweeted satellite images showing thick plumes of smoke north of Latakia, while clouds of smoke covered a circle more than 100 km in diameter.
Other images showed more wildfires approaching the oil refinery in Baniyas, south of Latakia and northwest of Tartous.
The Al-Haffah municipality, in the Latakia countryside, warned of the danger of fires in the governorate approaching the Agricultural Bank, which contains 150 tons of ammonium nitrate. The mayor said: “There will be a great disaster if the fire is not put out near the Banco Agrícola.
This material is considered dangerous if ignited, as the port of Beirut witnessed an explosion on August 4, caused by 2,750 tons of the same substance. However, the mayor indicated that 4 fire trucks were sent to Banco Agrícola to protect themselves from the risk of ammonium nitrate explosion, considering that the situation has become good and safe.
In context, the son of former Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, Firas Tlass, said he had obtained a leak from within the system that the blazing fires were an “Iranian-Assadist” scheme. He wrote on his Facebook page: “The leak that reached me, the fires, it is an Iranian lion agreement to pressure the Russians in a very malicious way.” He added: “I see it as a clear message for the Russians, written in a small part of their secret scratches for one of their criminals, Assad, to implement or we will burn the country even on their heads.”
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