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The Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment announces that today, Monday, 24 July 2023, at 08:44, a fire broke out in an area of the Municipality of Flassou, Nicosia District.
The intervention of the forest firefighting forces was immediate, resulting in the fire being brought under partial control at 10:00, after it burned an area of four decares of eucalyptus and thatch.
70 people of the Forestry Department with 15 fire engines, nine people of the Fire Service with three fire engines and one excavator of the Forestry Department worked to extinguish the fire. Two small fire engines of the communities in the area also worked. The two chartered helicopters and three planes of the Forestry Department also participated in the extinguishing.
The exact causes of the fire are being investigated.
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