Fire in the Biebrza National Park: The situation is still serious
A fire that broke out on the holiday afternoon on April 21 in the Biebrza National Park, still digits valuable natural areas. On Monday, the services reported that the fire had already covered about 450 ha of land.
The fire in the Biebrza National Park continues. Firefighters are fighting for a red swamp
The director of the Biebrza National Park Artur Wiatr informed that the fire is taking place near the area of strict park protection, i.e. the Czerwone Bagno reserve. It is a place valuable for many species, an elk refuge, but also a wolf, a lynx, rare species of birds: a thick eagle, a flashy eagle, aquatic water, a kszyk, a dubelt.
– From the park’s point of view, this is a very important place. It is a cradle of nature protection over Biebrza – explains Artur Wiatr. In his opinion, it is crucial that the fire does not move to the forest. He also added that the analysis of natural habitats covered by fire is underway.
– On the night of Monday to Tuesday, firefighters built a kilometer fire firefighting line from hoses, powered by water from a nearby river – said Capt. Cezary Zalewski from the District Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Wysokie Mazowieckie. Today it will be added about 1-1.5 km of such a network.
On Tuesday morning, about 300 firefighters of PSP and TSO worked on the spot. The firefighting company from the Masovian Voivodeship is also to come (there is a firefighting company from Olsztyn from Monday). There are also two specialized groups for extinguishing forest fires from Earth (from Poznań and Lublin). Foresters, WOT and the park employees themselves also help.
There are also 5 State Forest helicopters and a police Black Hawk. Yesterday he dropped 219 thousand. liters of water, and helicopters 125 thousand
Fire in Biebrza. Prime Minister Tusk announces a discussion about penalties for arson
This is another event of this type in the Biebrza National Park recently. Three weeks ago, the fire consumed about 90 ha of reeds and dry grasses. At that time, over 120 firefighters took part in the action, and the extinguishing took several hours. A few days ago there was another fire, which covered 8-9 ha of the park.
The reasons for the current fire are not yet determined. On the second day of Christmas, Prime Minister Donald Tusk participated in the briefing of services in Grzęd. He announced that during the Tuesday meeting of the government, the issue of penalties for arson would be discussed.
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Biebrza National Park. The services are fighting the element.
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Biebrza National Park. The services are fighting the element.
