Wednesday, August 23 2017 15:24

ArmInfo.Armenia, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Turkey gave their forces to help extinguish fire in  Borjomi Gorge in Georgia. 

According to Georgian media, six helicopters and one aircraft on the  morning of August 23 began work to eliminate a large-scale forest  fire in Borjomi-Kharakhau National Park. "The main fires in the  Borjomi gorge are localized, but the fight against fire continues.  Two helicopters of the border police of the Georgian Ministry of  Internal Affairs, one helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency  Situations of Belarus, one helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency  Situations of Azerbaijan, as well as two helicopters and aircraft  sent to the disaster zone by the authorities of Turkey were  mobilized. Specialists and dozens of firefighters from Armenia and  Azerbaijan were also involved in putting out the fire,Minister of  Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia Zurab Alavidze  told journalists. At the same time he noted that even despite the use  of aviation, fire elimination in the coming days is not expected.

"All night long work was carried out to localize the fire. Our main  task was to prevent the spread of fire to human settlements. This  task is completed. Now the situation is better than last night, but I  cannot say that we can put out the fire in a day or two, since it's a  large area, "Alavidze said. It should be noted that the Ministry of  Emergency Situations of Armenia the day before sent to the aid of  Georgia a special unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations  consisting of 57 people, as well as 8 rescue and fire fighting  vehicles and one rescue vehicle, one car of the medical center for  disasters and a mobile control post. Since early morning, Armenian  rescuers have been actively involved in putting out a fire in the  gorge that erupted on August 20.