The intervention teams succeeded, Thursday followingnoon, in completely circumscribing the fires recorded in the forests of “Jbal Ammar Teskart” (municipality of Lehri) and “Bouidar” (municipality of Grouchen), we learned from the local authorities in the province of Khenifra.
Three Canadair bombers, having carried out more than a dozen interventions, were mobilized to completely contain this fire, specifies the same source, adding that the interventions on the ground are still continuing until the total extinction of the fires.
The same source notes that monitoring of the fire situation revealed that two fires have resumed with renewed vigor in the forests of “Jbal Ammar Teskart” and “Bouidar”, despite control of the fires before, noting that the The resumption of the fire is due to the exceptional and unfavorable weather conditions experienced by this mountainous region, with rising temperatures and strong winds.
Various intervention teams were once more mobilized to put an end to this fire, with the participation of more than 780 elements of the Royal Armed Forces, Civil Protection, Water and Forest Services, the Royal Gendarmerie, the auxiliaries and National Promotion, in addition to volunteers from the local population.
The overall area damaged by these fires is around 300 ha, composed mainly of holm oak, juniper and dry grass, continues the same source, specifying that no human loss is to be deplored.
