Why isn't something being done to evacuate these people and lead them to safety.
As forest fires spread, Hama town residents to regime officials: You ‘don’t care if we get burned’
APR. 27, 2016
AMMAN: Wildfires devoured forests near the regime-held west Hama city of Masyaf for the seventh day on Wednesday as angry residents accuse unlicensed charcoal traders of intentionally setting the blazes and provincial officials of collaborating to “line their pockets.”
“Since last Thursday, five fires broke out in separate areas, one after the other,” Masyaf resident Rafiq told Syria Direct on Wednesday, using a pseudonym. So far, the blazes have consumed more than 20,000 square meters of pine and oak forests, brush and farmland on mountains west and south of Masyaf, Ibrahim Deeb from the pro-regime Maysaf News Network told Syria Direct on Wednesday.
Masyaf, home mostly to Alawites and Ismaili Shiites, lies 45km southwest of Hama city, deep within regime-held territory in Hama province. More than 100,000 people live in Masyaf proper and villages in the surrounding countryside.
Approximately 100 residents of two villages near Masyaf have fled their homes for the provincial capital over the past week, “fearing the flames and the thick smoke that can cause suffocation or death, especially for those with asthma,” says Rafiq
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As forest fires spread, Hama town residents to regime officials: You ‘don’t care if we get burned’?
As forest fires spread, Hama town residents to regime officials: You ‘don’t care if we get burned’
APR. 27, 2016
AMMAN: Wildfires devoured forests near the regime-held west Hama city of Masyaf for the seventh day on Wednesday as angry residents accuse unlicensed charcoal traders of intentionally setting the blazes and provincial officials of collaborating to “line their pockets.”
“Since last Thursday, five fires broke out in separate areas, one after the other,” Masyaf resident Rafiq told Syria Direct on Wednesday, using a pseudonym. So far, the blazes have consumed more than 20,000 square meters of pine and oak forests, brush and farmland on mountains west and south of Masyaf, Ibrahim Deeb from the pro-regime Maysaf News Network told Syria Direct on Wednesday.
Masyaf, home mostly to Alawites and Ismaili Shiites, lies 45km southwest of Hama city, deep within regime-held territory in Hama province. More than 100,000 people live in Masyaf proper and villages in the surrounding countryside.
Approximately 100 residents of two villages near Masyaf have fled their homes for the provincial capital over the past week, “fearing the flames and the thick smoke that can cause suffocation or death, especially for those with asthma,” says Rafiq
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As forest fires spread, Hama town residents to regime officials: You ‘don’t care if we get burned’?
