Extinction of the forest fire in Béjaïa

Ministry of the Interior

The Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that the forest fire that broke out in the wilaya of Béjaïa was completely controlled by the civil protection services. Preventive cooling and monitoring operations are still continuing to prevent any possible recovery of flames.
The fire had declared itself in the so -called Akhrizen area, under the commune of Boukhelifa, in the daïra of Tichy. Thanks to the rapid and coordinated rescue intervention, the fire was contained before reaching the neighboring residential areas.
An operational command center has been set up to ensure coordination between the various stakeholders in the field. The intervention mobilized 86 agents of different grades, 15 intervention trucks of various sizes, the mobile detachment of forest fire fights in the wilaya of Béjaïa, as well as the regional unit of Sétif. Six AT802 type aircraft and a Be200 plane in the National People’s Army were also deployed.
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