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Thursday, May 26, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Some residents okayed to return home
Residents of Mevaseret Zion outside Jerusalem forced to leave their homes over a brush fire raging nearby have been given the okay to return home, as firefighters beat back the blaze, Channel 2 news reports.
Across the Arazim Valley in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, a total of 60 homes have been evacuated, the Walla news site reports.
A total of 48 firefighting teams and 11 units are battling the blaze there, the report says.
In the Galilee, hikers near the town of Bar Yochai, near Meron, have also been evacuated because of a fire there.
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