Serbian Blaze Forces Evacuations as Russian Waterbomber Arrives
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A large fire has ravaged a natural reserve in Serbia for two weeks, where more than 3600 hectares of vegetation have already burned. Some 435 people are being mobilized as a new heat wave strikes the country.
On Wednesday evening, a Russian Il-76P firefighting aircraft landed at Niš airport. A day later, the aircraft was dispatched to the Deliblatska Pešćara nature reserve, where the largest fire in the country has been raging for several weeks. On Thursday, the fire came within about a kilometer of the village of Grebenac. Around 400 people, supported by nearly 100 vehicles, are battling the blaze, the Serbian daily Politika reported. "Considering t…
Forest fires have also engulfed Serbia, with the most active ones currently in the Deliblatska Peščara area, where more than 3,500 hectares of forest and vegetation are burning. A state of emergency has been declared in the municipality of Bela Crkva. A Russian Il-76 "Ilyushin" aircraft has also arrived to help, all helicopters of the Helicopter Unit of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior are also active, and more than 400 firefighters are on t…
For more than two weeks, firefighters have been battling a fire in Deliblatska peščara, a large nature reserve, about 70 kilometers from Belgrade. Why hasn't it been shut down yet?
A forest fire that has been raging for weeks in a vast Serbian nature reserve forced evacuations on Thursday, state media reported, with firefighters helped by a Russian firefighting plane to extinguish the flames.
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