site.btaFire at Bulgaria-Greece Border Under Control - Fire Chief

A total of 311 firemen, servicemen, policemen, hunters and volunteers are trying to extinguish the wildfire on the Bulgarian-Greek border near Mt. Veykata in the territory of Kirkovo Municipality, the Interior Ministry’s Regional Directorate in Kardzhali said in a press release on Tuesday. The fire has been raging for some two weeks now.

A two-week-old wildfire in Greece has crossed into Bulgaria at a second location Friday after it first jumped the border at Gorno Kapinovo a day earlier. The head of the local fire service in the southern town of Kurdjali, Sergei Zaimov, told BTA.

A fire that has been raging in Greece near the border with Bulgaria for some ten days now, has jumped back into Bulgaria in the territory of Kirkovo Municipality, said the local Interior Ministry Directorate Thursday.