Prime Minister, ministers inspect the damage caused to the areas that have been hit by fires in the western countryside of Hama

HAMA, (ST)- Prime Minister Hussein Arnous accompanied by the Ministers of Local Administration, Environment, Interior and Agriculture inspected the areas that were affected by recent fires in Hama western countryside in order to check the damage caused to these areas and the situation of the locals there.

 During his tour, Arnous met with al-Ghab firefighters and forest department staff in front of the Agricultural Bank in the town of Shatha. He affirmed that the government will spare no effort to compensate for the loss of forest wealth caused by fires through intensifying reforestation plans in the affected areas.

The government delegation started the tour by visiting Slinfeh- Ain Jourin water pumping station that irrigates some 70 towns and villages in the Syrian provinces of Hama and Lattakia near where the wildfires spread before being extinguished later by the firefighting teams with the help of the Syrian Arab Army as well as the internal Security and Law Enforcement forces.

The delegation visited the medical point in Freika town in al-Ghab area which was supplied by additional medical cadres during the fires period to help it provide necessary treatment and health services to locals as well as firefighters around the clock.

The delegation also visited several Syrian Arab Army’s points in al-Heiloneh, al-Leqbeh and Ain Shams villages whose personnel took part alongside the firefighters in extinguishing the fires that erupted in the mountains’ slopes and hills in Hama western countryside.

The Prime Minister conveyed President Bashar Al-Assad’s greetings and affection to the firefighters, civil and national defense teams, the Syrian Arab Army personnel and the Internal Security Forces as well as the locals who managed to extinguish the wildfires in Misyaf and al-Ghab areas. He also offered financial rewards to all the army personnel and firefighters who participated in controlling the fires.

Hamda Mustafa