Syria struggles to contain wildfires as temperatures rise
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Firefighters were battling on Tuesday to extinguish multiple wildfires raging across the central Syrian countryside, local civil defence officials said, as temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the country. One fire broke out on public farmland in the central province of Hama, where firefighting teams were working to stop it spreading to surrounding areas, the head of the local forest protection centre, Amjad Hammad, told state news agency SANA. Another was raging across agricultural zones in the adjacent province of Homs, the head of civil defence there told...
Source: swissinfo.ch
