BEIRUT: A wildfire erupted Sunday between the Aley villages of Deir Qoubel and Bshamoun, with the Deir Quobel mayor blaming a mechanical problem for an extreme delay in firefighters’ response to the blaze.
“It burned the whole valley from Deir Qoubel to the edge of Bshamoun,” Mayor Waddah Nassereddine told The Daily Star by phone. “And now an Army helicopter has arrived to help put the fire out.”
“The Civil Defense and firefighting teams arrived extremely late,” he said. “It has been three hours since the fire erupted, but they didn’t arrive until half an hour ago.”
The mayor aid both firefighting trucks in nearby Shoueifat were out of order.
“I was shocked to know that they just have not repaired the vehicles and that other trucks were sent from Beirut,” Nassereddine said. “If not for the residents, it would have taken over the houses.”
Although pushed back from the side of Deir Qoubel, the fire has spread to Bshamoun, where the Army’s helicopter and firefighting teams are working to prevent damage to properties or residences.
Nassereddine said that due to its size, the fire could take several hours to be entirely extinguished.
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