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The Algerian Civil Protection announced that 215 fires were recorded in various parts of the country during the past 24 hours. These fires varied between 73 vegetation fires and 142 urban and industrial fires.
Civil protection teams carried out 3,775 interventions to confront various incidents, including traffic accidents and drownings. This comes in light of the increasing frequency of forest and vegetation fires in Algeria, as this type of fire is a renewed challenge facing the country annually.
Forest fires in Algeria in 2023 led to the death of 34 people, reflecting the increasing danger of these disasters to both the population and the environment.
Statistics from the General Directorate of Forests indicate that during the period from 2019 to 2022, forest fires destroyed more than 200,000 hectares of Algerian forests.
In 2022, Algeria witnessed a wave of forest fires that destroyed more than 100,000 hectares of forests, causing the death of 9 people. In 2020, forest fires destroyed more than 60,000 hectares of forests in the state of Tizi Ouzou, and in 2017, forest fires destroyed more than 60,000 hectares of forests in the state of Tizi Ouzou. From 40 thousand hectares of Constantine state forests.
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