Effective extinguishing of fire in Sfakia [photo+video]

With the help of the weather conditions, as well as after noon it began a drizzle, the powerful forces of fire fighting, they put under control the fire in the pine forest in the vicinity of St. Paul over from Sfakia, on the site Σελούδα, before Agia Roumeli.
The efforts of 35 firefighters of the backpacker segment and the five officers of the Fire brigade, headed by the Commander of the Fire brigade, Crete, Giannis political, military, aided by a key and the fire helicopter “Flame 9” which in two hours made ten throws water in places where there were μικροεστίες of the fire.
The fire helicopter departed to return to his base at Eleusis.
“The drop of water was effective,” he said in the Flashnews.en mr Μαραγκάκης, specifying, however, how the forces of fire will stay on the alert as it continues to burn to the ground in the substrate of pine needles and other vegetation.
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In the area where he passed the fire to “smoke” even as it smoulders the humus, i.e. leaves, residues, branches, roots, and animal organisms.
Earlier in the morning, on the E4 trail descended firefighters with pumps back and equipment in order to extinguish the hotbeds of humus. With them down, and the Regional Governor of Crete, the Fire brigade, John Μαραγκάκης.
As mr Μαραγκάκης in the Flashnews.gr:

Over Saint Paul there are 4 homes on which we see smoke as it burns the humus below. Although we can’t see why alternate ravines, active front does not seem to exist.
On the eastern front descend now a group of 8 people of ESU with pump back, pump, επινώτιους and with picks, to get into the woods to find the humus that smolder and make smoke.
On the western front has gone hiker section of Chania. Not threatened anything as there is no active front of a fire.
Let us remind you that this is an area with forest vegetation, a virgin, as there is no road that leads to this, something that hampered the work of the fighting as they had no way last night the forces fighting to πλησιασούν.

It is worth noting that in the photos published last flashnews.gr, it seems clear that there have been many outbreaks in the far distance between them, which is an indication that it may be, and arson. This, however, is something that we will consider the interrogation of the fire service.