Fires return to head the scene in Latakia Mountains within the controlled areas of the regime in order to get wood and coal
The phenomenon of fires in Latakia countryside returned again after tens of them were extinguished in the coast line, in the middle of October 2019.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a fire that broke out on the 6th of November 2019, in Zama village near Jisr Ayn Al-Jawzah.
In the past 24 hours, SOHR monitored another fire in Zahr barakat village in Al-Sharshur area.
It also monitored a third fire in Basisin village, which caused substantial material damage.
The area is under the control of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, and sources told SOHR that the fires are done on purpose in order to make coal because of its high price
The Syrian Observatory published on the 15th of October 2019, that tens of fires broke out in the past 24 hours in regime forces’-controlled areas, in Tartus, Jableh, al-Qardaha, Latakia, and west of Homs, which caused significant damage to the property of the citizens and the fruitful trees, and displaced tens of families after the fire expanded to reach the homes, also electricity was cut off from vast areas in the Syrian coast, where the fire broke out in Jableh city in al-Wadi al-Akhdar area which caused power outages and the fire devoured large areas, and the situation is the same in Beshraghi village in the road Sheikh Nasser; in which the fire expanded rapidly as the wind speed increased in the area,.
Another fire broke out in Syano village but it was controlled by the locals, and in Kilmakho area (Rwayset Abboud) in Qardaha countryside; a fire broke out that quickly spread to surrounding areas, and a large fire broke out in Ayn Shqaq (al-Barzin) which caused significant damage to the electricity towers.
In al-Shuweikhiyya, the area witnessed the displacement of people as fire was approaching to the residential areas, and in Rwayset Badriyyah; the families were forced to leave the area because the fire reached the houses, while a large fire broke out in Marmarita – Kafra – and spread to other villages, also the fire reached the houses.
These fires are repeated every year because of the need of the people for firewood and expanding the land at the expense of forestlands and planting them with fruitful trees, also inhabitants of these areas are considered to be influential and the human reservoir people of the Syrian regime, and they form the pillars of the army and militias loyal to it.