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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Schools, homes evacuated in Kibbutz Mesilot as wildfire spreads
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice are evacuating a school, a kindergarten, and several homes threatened by a quickly-spreading wildfire in Kibbutz Mesilot in northern Israel’s Beit She’an Valley.
Several firefighting squads from the Afula station and six firefighting planes were dispatched to the area to combat the blazes, says the Fire and Rescue Service.
Police have closed part of Route 669 to traffic as efforts to contain the fire are ongoing, law enforcement says.
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