100 Million AMD Damage Because of Setting Fire Grass-Covered Territories

100 Million AMD Damage Because of Setting Fire Grass-Covered Territories

Armenpress

The damages caused by forest fires and grass-covered territories in the current year make up 100 million AMD. The number of fires for June 2010 was 348, while this year this figure is 509. Most of them are fires in grass-covered territories; no serious fire forests have been recorded. The situation in Yerevan is also active: 365 fires this year instead of 235 cases for the last year.

July 06, 2011 at 15:32