The Emirate of Asir region said, in the early hours of today, Saturday, that the field command room to confront the fire that broke out in Jabal Gulamah in Tanuma Governorate worked to divide the accident into sectors to besiege it, secure some homes near the site of the accident by placing firefighting units, and requesting the evacuation of some of the houses that occurred. In the direction of smoke as a precaution.
The emirate added, through its Twitter account: “The field command room made a plan to evacuate villages if necessary, equip suitable shelters, and open lines with village representatives for readiness.”
The rate of extinguishing for the third day of the outbreak of the fire was between 70 and 75% on an area estimated between 1,200 and 1,500 square meters, according to the latest clarification from the Emirate of Asir on the ongoing firefighting operations.
The emirate says that “a plan was activated to respond to the threat of forest fires after merging the leaderships of the governorates of Al-Namas and Nauma with one room in the middle of the fire area, and a reference area and site support was identified with mechanisms from municipalities, civil defense, agriculture and volunteer teams, in coordination with Aramco for ground support and spraying aircraft.”
Five civil defense men were injured during the attempts to extinguish the fire, while the damage caused by the fire has been limited so far in the area to natural damage through the loss of juniper trees, shrubs and dry grasses, while no human damage has been detected.
The Saudi Civil Defense says that the strong winds that accompanied the fire in its early stages, the rugged mountainous region and the difficulty in accessing fire engines, contributed to the spread of the fire widely.
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