{"id":127060,"date":"2025-07-08T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=127060"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:01:41","slug":"syrian-civil-defense-evacuates-village-as-wildfires-spread-across-latakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/127060\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Civil Defense evacuates village as wildfires spread across Latakia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LATAKIA, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Syrian Civil Defense teams evacuated on Tuesday residents from a village in the northern countryside of Latakia following the rapid expansion of wildfires that have been raging for six consecutive days in the mountainous regions of northwestern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Civil Defense\u2019s official social media accounts, teams evacuated the village of al-Ghassaniyah, located in the north of Latakia city, as flames approached the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Efforts to contain and extinguish the wildfires surrounding the village continue, especially after the fires intensified past midnight on Tuesday due to strong wind gusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joint firefighting operations by Syrian, Turkish, and Jordanian Civil Defense teams, in coordination with volunteer organizations, are still underway to combat fires in the forests of al-Frunluq and Qastal Ma\u2019af in Latakia countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The neighboring Hama Governorate announced that firefighting and Civil Defense units had successfully contained a blaze that broke out in the village of Kherbet Youssef, near the town of Salhab. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since July 1, massive fires have consumed large swaths of forested land in Latakia. 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