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Fire breaks out for third time this week near Akkar village

Fire breaks out for third time this week near Akkar village

Wildfires continue to ravage North Lebanon. (Credit: Michel Hallak)

BEIRUT — Wildfires continue to ravage North Lebanon with a large fire breaking out on Thursday in the forest and agricultural areas of the village of Qabiit in Akkar for the third time this week, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the region reported.

Here's what we know: 

    • According to our correspondent, volunteers from the Civil Defense, as well as from the federation of municipalities of the region and from among the inhabitants of the village quickly went to the scene to try to extinguish the flames, which were spreading at high speeds. Local residents urged the Lebanese Army to intervene, with its firefighting helicopters.

   • Lebanon has recently been the scene of a series of devastating fires, some of which are believed to be of human origin.


Additional reporting by Michel Hallak. 

BEIRUT — Wildfires continue to ravage North Lebanon with a large fire breaking out on Thursday in the forest and agricultural areas of the village of Qabiit in Akkar for the third time this week, L’Orient Today’s correspondent in the region reported.Here's what we know:     • According to our correspondent, volunteers from the Civil Defense, as well as from the federation...