Tunisia is facing fires again… and there are fears of their expansion

On Wednesday, the Tunisian authorities evacuated dozens of residents from their homes in the town of Malouleh, in the northern city of Tabarka, after sudden fires broke out and spread rapidly in the forests. The efforts of firefighters are still continuing to extinguish them, amid fears of their spread.

The local administration of civil protection in Jendouba governorate said, in a statement, that its agents were able to rescue citizens whose homes were surrounded by fire, adding that efforts are still continuing to control the fire and put an end to its spread to the population.

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Video clips documented the fires devouring tall trees in the forest and thick clouds of smoke, as it showed the firefighting teams racing against time to put out the fire and prevent it from reaching the residential neighborhoods saturated with the forest and leaving it on the main roads, with the support and assistance of the citizens.

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Tunisia is witnessing a record high temperature during this period, which is expected to continue until the end of this month, which raised fears of a recurrence of the fires of past years, which caused damage to vast areas of the country’s forest cover.

During the same period last year, Tunisia recorded more than 10 fires involving several forests, which caused the loss of about 500 hectares of forests, the most serious of which was the fire in Mount Boukornine, south of the capital Tunis, which took several days to extinguish the fire inside.