Fire summary - November 29, 2016

Statistics on the fires that raged throughout Israel between 22-27 November, 2016.

In KKL-JNF forests:

  • 63 forest fires
  • 16,631.8 dunams (1,663.2 hectares / 4,109.8 acres) of open space burnt
  • 7,023.8 dunams (702.6 hectares / 1,736.1 acres) of forest burnt
  • 300 KKL-JNF staff and firefighters
  • 20 KKL-JNF fire trucks, tractors and bulldozers

 

All around Israel:

  • 2,500 firefighters
  • 630 fires
  • 480 airplane sorties
  • 1.5 million tons of liquids and fire inhibitors dumped
  • 75,000 people evacuated
  • 133 people injured
  • 41,000 dunam (4,100 hectares / 10,131.3 acres) burnt in total
Surveying the damage. Photo: Eyal Eliyahu