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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
All fires near Jerusalem extinguished, fire chief says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJerusalem’s fire chief, Nissim Twitto, says all brush and forest fires near the capital have been extinguished.
Earlier today, fires near Lifta and Even Sapir closed the Begin highway, forced the evacuation of dozens of homes and saw authorities dispatching as many as 30 fire crews and four firefighting planes to the city.
Small pinpoint fires remain in the wooded areas of the capital’s western boundaries and firefighting crews will be working to extinguish those late into the night, officials say, but all danger to the capital’s residents has passed.
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