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The forests of the wilaya of Béjaïa are once again threatened by fires, the number of which has been increasing in favor of the return of the heat wave for a few days.
Tuesday and Wednesday, a large number of forest fires was recorded across the wilaya which raises the worst this when the mercury culminated at more than 47 ° C in the Soummam valley or even more in other places especially in the upper Valley, in Ouzellaguen, Seddouk, Akbou, Boudjéllil and Tazmalt.
The civil protection of the wilaya of Béjaïa recorded at least eight fires in recent 24 hours which have been extinguished. These are forest fires recorded this Wednesday Tala Khélifa and Annar Assem, commune of Aokas and Djebel Nasasah, village of Tizi-Ahmed, municipality of Tichy. These two fires were completely extinguished at a time when we are in press.
However, firefighters are on site to still monitor the premises. Significant resources have been deployed to extinguish the fire of Tala Khélifa and Annar Assem in Aokas, including 22 firefighters and 07 pump trucks and tanker trucks.
The firefighters mobilized the units of the municipalities of Béjaïa, Souk el-Tennine, Aoaks and Tizi N’Berber. Ditto for the Forest Forest of Djbel Nasseh of the village Tizi-Ahemd which contained the unit of Tichy. Tuesday, extinction operations were concentrated on the fire of Ikherazens, locality of Boukhélifa, daïra de Tichy.
On the same day, other fires were recorded including that of the locality, Nose Nose and Tala N’Darth, commune of Darguina, the 4 paths in Béjaïa, Ighil-oudjevar, locality of Souk El-Tennnine and Bouaissi, municipality of Taskariout, is the wilaya. Which complicated the task of fire soldiers.
The extinction operations were carried out all day on Tuesday in order to overcome the flames of the fire recorded in Ikherazens, commune of Boukhélifa whose departure had been reported on Monday evening around 9:45 p.m.
The civil protection services and those of the forests have also deployed the day before yesterday of large means in order to curb the advance of the flames and to keep them away especially from the inhabited areas. In addition to human resources, including 86 agents from the main unit, the mobile column of Béjaïa, the Tichy unit and the anti-firefighting detachment from the wilaya of Sétif, there are also 15 tanker trucks and pump trucks deployed on the ground in more than 06 bombers of water-type water at802 and the support of BOMBARDIERS of the ENP of the BE200 type. Two communication vehicles, a bus, an ambulance were also used.
According to the civil protection communications officer of the wilaya of Béjaïa “the flames were far from the dwellings”. Note that the operation is supervised by the director of organization and operational coordination at the Directorate General for Civil Protection Colonel Moulai Khélifa.