Terrorist organizations target firefighting teams, cause fires in Lattakia countryside

On July 27th, terrorist organizations, positioned in the northern countryside of Lattakia and northwestern Idlib, continued to target forests and agricultural fields in the northern countryside of Lattakia with missiles, explosive bullets and drones, with the aim of setting fires and targeting residents and firefighting crews to impede their work while trying to suppress the fires.

Brigadier General Jalal Daoud, Director of Civil Defense in Lattakia Governorate, said in a statement: “What hinders the work of the firefighters the most is the terrorist organizations’ firing of mortar shells, drones, and explosive bullets at the firefighters during their operations to put out the fire.”

Daoud pointed out that the drones launched by the terrorists from their gathering places, and the mines planted in the contact areas, of which a number exploded due to the fires, had increased the fire hotspots in the northern countryside of Lattakia.

Daoud asserted that despite the terrorist organizations’ attacks, the firefighters did not stop their work in fighting the fire while moving very carefully to avoid the shells and mines that these terrorist organizations planted in separate areas before they were defeated by the Syrian Arab Army.

He explained that after the firefighting teams were able to control a number of fires that broke out yesterday in the northern countryside and during the start of cooling operations, fires broke out in several other places in the areas of Jabal Al-Namla, Wadi Al-Rayhan, Al-Alia, Wadi Rabia, Al-Qamoo’, Mashqita, Solas and Jouret Al-Ma.

Daoud praised the efforts of the firefighting teams, which operate under harsh climatic conditions, pointing out that three of them were injured after suffering moderate burns, and they were transferred to hospitals for treatment.

O. al-Mohammad

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