{"id":18830,"date":"2021-08-15T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18830"},"modified":"2021-08-15T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:46:05","slug":"high-winds-aggravate-the-wildfires-in-northern-albania-reports-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/high-winds-aggravate-the-wildfires-in-northern-albania-reports-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"High winds aggravate the wildfires in northern Albania, reports defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence minister, Niko Peleshi announced this Sunday that because of the high winds currently present in the northern regions of the country, the intensity of the wildfires there has escalated.<\/p>\n<p>In his announcement posted on Facebook, Peleshi gave a rundown of the current state of things in the area:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Terbun Mountain, Puke<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 wildfires have been normalized.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flet village, Fushe-Arrez<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 intervention from the air has been interrupted because of electric wires that put the pilots\u2019 lives in danger.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kryezi village Puke<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the situation is under control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dardha village, Puke<\/strong> \u2013 dangerous wildfires, rescue teams are working to isolate them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Patelej village, Lezha<\/strong> \u2013 the wildfire continues to spread because of the high wind. 15 hectares of forestland has been burned including bushland and trees. Until now, residential homes aren\u2019t at risk but the fires are nonetheless moving on and heading North-East.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirre village, Mirdite<\/strong> \u2013 the situation has gotten worse, 140 hectares of farmland have been scorched. The fire is impossible to manage solely from the land.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peak of Runa, Loop of Apples and the Loop of Pigs, Kukes<\/strong> \u2013 the situation is problematic, the harsh terrains make it difficult to isolate the area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qafe Murre, Diber<\/strong> \u2013 situation under control, no risk for residential areas as wildfires have moved on to a rocky terrain with little vegetation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kacni village, Diber<\/strong> \u2013 even though efforts were added the situation remains out of control and the fire is closing in on the Pines territory that is part of the Klos municipality. 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In his announcement posted on Facebook, Peleshi gave a rundown of the current state of things in the area: Terbun Mountain, Puke\u00a0\u2013 wildfires have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":18831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High winds aggravate the wildfires in northern Albania, reports defence minister - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/high-winds-aggravate-the-wildfires-in-northern-albania-reports-defence-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High winds aggravate the wildfires in northern Albania, reports defence minister - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Defence minister, Niko Peleshi announced this Sunday that because of the high winds currently present in the northern regions of the country, the intensity of the wildfires there has escalated. 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