Due to an active pine forest fire in inaccessible terrain in the Pisvir area near Jablanica, assistance from the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina helicopters was requested, the Federal Civil Protection Administration (FUCZ) announced.
The fire broke out yesterday afternoon, and members of the Jablanica Fire Department extinguished it from 2:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. According to information from the field, the fire is still active due to the inaccessibility of the area affected by the fire.
Jablanica firefighters also intervened in Brgulići, where grass was burning.
In the Mostar area, the Fire Department had five interventions. Grass and low vegetation were burning in Kočine, waste in Kralja Tomislava Street, waste, grass and low vegetation on Aluminijski Road, and forest and low vegetation in Bijela. A waste fire was also extinguished in Splitska Street.
Firefighters in Čapljina intervened four times. Fires were recorded in Gabela Polje, at the city landfill Ada, in Gnjiliste and in Klepci, where grass, garbage and plant waste were burning.
According to the FUCZ report, most of the fires related to open space, grass, low vegetation and waste.
