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Divine Providence saved the town of Bentael in the Jbeil district and its inhabitants from a humanitarian and environmental disaster, since before midnight a great fire broke out that spread over an area of more than 70 thousand meters of land, and the flames reached homes and destroyed large areas of fruit and oak trees, and affected part of one. There were houses and two cars parked by the road.
The fire damaged several plastic tents.
Civil defense personnel from the Jbeil, Beja and Jaj center, supported by firefighting personnel and vehicles from the Batroun, Kesrouan and North Matn centers, the operations room of the General Directorate of Civil Defense, people from the village and neighboring villages, he worked to put out the fire, while the “Hawaik tanks to distribute water to the homes of Mishmash” and a tanker truck In the Jbeil district, named after the son of the village, “Joe Nun “of the Beirut Fire Brigade, who died in the Beirut port explosion last August. The water is for fire trucks.
In this context, the Director General of Civil Defense, Brigadier General Raymond Khattar, continued the firefighting operation throughout the night and into the morning with the head of the Jubail Regional Center, Shakib Ghanem, who supervised the operation where controlled the fire, while civil defense personnel continue to work so far to cool the ground.
Ghanem also received a phone call from a member of the “Strong Republic” bloc, MP Ziad Al-Hawat, and another from the mayor of Jbeil, Natali Mari Al-Khoury, to see what is happening on the ground.
The people thanked the civil defense, civil servants and officials, for their “enthusiasm and dedication in their work, especially since the elements are volunteers,” asking the State and officials to do them justice.
An indication that of the 7 civil defense fire trucks in Jbeil district, 4 of them have been inactive for more than two months, and the Ministry of the Interior has not disbursed money to repair them, and the existing mechanisms will cease to function at early next month, because your fuel budget is running out. This will pose a great threat to citizens and their livelihoods and forest wealth.
Source: National Information Agency
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