Kukes Mayor denies help: When Kosovo forces arrived, we had turned off the fire

Today, the situation in Calimash is much calmer when the work of the complete extinguishing of the fire furnaces is still under way.

Kukes Mayor Safet Gjici in a live link for News24 says the fire over the Calimash tunnel was neutralised when military forces and firefighters from Kosovo arrived.

Gjici says that the fire yesterday over the Calimash tunnel was isolated at about 11 o'clock at night, while only smoke trunks have already remained.

He says that in the next three shelters in Kukes it needs a helicopter because of the ground broken by the ground it cannot be intervened.

Safet Gjici's statement:

No more risk. From 2 pm yesterday until the early morning hour of Albania, Kukes, airport ambulances, airport firefighters, 4 firefighters were conducting an operation, intervened, and extinguishing the fire. No second was interrupted by the Nation's Road thanks to firefighters.

The fire came very quickly from strong winds, to the tunnel, of course, to stop and seal fire from 11 o'clock at night and then extinguish, and today we are talking, there are no more, just some smoke trunks.

Of course, our Kosovo brothers came to the rescue, but when the fire was neutralized. We thank them very much for their help. There has been some operation, but land forces on the Mount of Rock, other sites that our own land forces cannot interfere with. Thanks to the helicopter, it's going off.

It's just air interference in these three hearings works, from the ground is impossible. They're there. I want to thank the KSF and Kosovo firefighters, but they cannot interfere. A very broken field, only the helicopter shuts them down, he's working on the Mount of Rock and the other two hearths.

QUESTION: Should the government have a work plan or a strategic plan to improve firefighters?

J ICI: Of course, the more firefighters we have, that we have very difficult territory, of course, need intervention, improvements. We arrived with an organization, thanks to the support of the residents, all the residents have been in support. And the firefighters of the airport, The DMR, prepared for the extinguishing of fires as well as the Kukes City Hall. I want to thank them that 24 hours in 24 days, five days stay in the dark, that fires are in very difficult terrain, because only with backpacks, you can go.
QUESTION: Is there a responsibility for such fires?

J It's a criminal arm I'd say thousands of acres of forest were burned, but the law enforcement bodies are doing investigations and the suspects will be brought to justice. We don't have any concrete names, but fire department experts are working on organs to catch the responsible.