Erdan agrees to evacuate Carmel prison

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan gives permission to the Israel Prisons Service to evacuate Carmel Prison on the southern outskirts of Haifa.

The evacuation is a preemptive move in the event that the fire spreads. The prison currently houses some 270 inmates.

In 2010, dozens of IPS staff perished when their bus caught fire during a massive blaze in the Carmel Forest.

The burnt remains of a bus in which 38 Prison Service cadets were killed in the December 2010 Carmel forest fire (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
The burnt remains of a bus in which 38 Prison Service cadets were killed in the December 2010 Carmel forest fire (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

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