A fire that broke out on inaccessible terrain in the vicinity of Arandjelovac, between Garaš and Darosava, it has been active for 20 hours. More than 40 firefighters participate in the extinguishing. Households are not threatened for now. They have arrived and the helicopters of the Serbian Army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which fill canisters with water on Lake Garaška and sprinkle the burning location, which is difficult to reach, writes Euronews Serbia.
The president of the municipality of Aranđelovac, Bojan Radović, said for RTS that the possibility of extinguishing from the air will be considered in the next few hours.
The local firefighters fought the fire all night long, and their colleagues from Topola, DVD from Orašac, as well as JKP "Bukulja", quadrists and a large number of locals came to their aid.
All the available machinery of PUK "Bukulja", the Aranđelovac Fire Department and colleagues from other municipalities are on the ground, it was announced on the Instagram account of the Municipality of Aranđelovac.
More than 40 firefighters-rescuers from Aranđelovac, Topola and Kragujevac with eight fire engines, as well as 10 members of the voluntary fire brigades of Aranđelovac and Topola with two vehicles, were engaged in the extinguishing.
There are no endangered houses, the cause is the human factor
The fire that broke out yesterday in the vicinity of Arandjelovac has been localized on two sides, its spread has been stopped and no houses are threatened, the commander of the Arandjelovac Fire and Rescue Unit Nenad Milivojević said today.
He said that the fire that broke out yesterday between Garaš and Darosava covered an area of 100 to 150 hectares.
"There is a lot of material damage. A huge area of forest complexes burned, but the most important thing is that there are no endangered households and no injured firefighters. It was prevented from spreading towards the houses in the Markovići and Garaš areas. So the situation is much more favorable," said Milivojević.
"A lot of people are on the field, a lot of machinery. The weather today is calmer, more favorable, there is no wind, and we hope that we will be able to put out this big fire today," Milivojević stressed.
He also says that the fire was reported to the fire service too late, which is why it covered a huge area.
Fires everywhere
More than 2500 hectares of forest and low vegetation on Stara Planina burned recently. Members of the Department for Emergency Situations were engaged in 168 fires and 26 other interventions, and the largest fire was in the town of Žarce near Kraljevo, the MUP announced earlier.
The fire in the village of Žarče on the Žaračka mountain above the town of Ušće in the Ibar Gorge was localized three days ago. he told RTS Petar Luković, commander of the Department for Emergency Situations in Kraljevo.
On Troglav above Bogutovac in the Ibarska Gorge, the fire has not yet been brought under control. About 50 hectares of forest burned.
Source: Euronews Serbia, RTS
