Flames devouring trees in the locality of Wadi Jahannam, in Akkar. (Credit: Michel Hallak/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — A fire broke out on Tuesday in a forest in the Wadi Jahannam region of Akkar in northern Lebanon, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent Michel Hallak.
Here’s what we know:
• According to Hallak, local residents have urged the Lebanese authorities to act quickly to prevent the flames from destroying the valley, which is a tourist site in Lebanon.
• The Akkar region is regularly ravaged by fires. In the beginning of June, a fire broke out in Safinat al-Kaytaa, also in Akkar, before being extinguished the next day by the Civil Defense.
• Hundreds of hectares of the Wadi Jehannam region had already caught fire last August by forest fires.