The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkey said that on the night of July 17, a forest fire broke out in a village 40 kilometers from the construction site of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Mersin province in the south of the country. It has been reported DEA News.
In a statement made by the Ministry, “The forest fire in the Gülnar village of Mersin is being extinguished non-stop with firefighters and helicopters that can fly at night.
Before that, it was learned that the residents of one of the districts of the Hatay province of Turkey, neighboring Syria, had to emigrate. i evacuate due to a huge forest fire.
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Yumaklı said that 9 aircraft, 21 helicopters, 59 ground equipment and 375 rescuers intervened in the efforts to extinguish the fire in Belen. He emphasized that the extinguishing of the fire was carried out “uninterruptedly from the air and from the ground”.
According to the news of TRT, the smoke from this fire clouded the sky in the city of Antakya, which is about 40 kilometers from Belen.
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