DAMASCUS: Firefighters were battling on Tuesday (Jul 18) to extinguish multiple wildfires raging across the central Syrian countryside, local civil defence officials said, as temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the country. One fire broke out on public farmland in the central province of Ha
DAMASCUS: Firefighters were battling on Tuesday to extinguish multiple wildfires raging across the central Syrian countryside, local civil defence officials said, as temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the country.
Another was raging across agricultural zones in the adjacent province of Homs, the head of civil defence there told SANA, saying civil defence teams were struggling to contain it due to"the mountainous and rugged terrain". The state news agency said temperatures were up to six degrees Celsius higher than average across the country on Tuesday, with active gusts and"very hot clouds".
One group of women in the capital charged tiny electric fans with portable batteries and regularly dunked their feet in cool water to make up for the lack of air conditioning.
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