Firefighters have fought over 9,000 forest fires this year

There were over 9,000 forest fires this year (8,300 from April to August). In this respect, the situation in the forests is definitely worse than last year, during which there were 8,800 fires altogether – spokesman of the National Headquarters of the State Fire Service (KG PSP) Paweł Frątczak said.

These figures include both state forests as well as private and municipal forests. As the services emphasize, in 9 out of 10 cases men are guilty of forest fires, but the weather also has a big impact with high temperature, no rainfall, and drought.

(PAP)