On October 14, the Homs Agriculture Directorate started building a network of fire trails in forested areas to enable firefighting trucks to reach these areas easily to put out fires quickly .
Head of the Tal Kalakh Forests Department Elias Bitar said that the plan includes building new fire trails and rebuilding previous ones in areas that witnessed fires during the past days.
Bitar added that the goal of constructing these fire trails is to enable firefighting vehicles to quickly reach the nearest point of the fire.
Bitar indicated that the total length of all fire trails are about 50 km in areas Qurib Ali, Bedar Rafi, Tareez, Zwaitina, Ayyun al-Wadi and Juwaikhat.
O. al-Mohammad