Severe Damage in Rural Hasakah Due to Wildfires
Large-scale wildfires have swept across wide areas of rural Hasakah province over the past two days, burning extensive agricultural lands and destroying hundreds of hectares of crops that were nearing harvest. The fires have also caused significant material losses affecting civilian property and public infrastructure in several villages and towns.
Field reports indicate that the fires were not limited to farmland but also reached parts of infrastructure and public service networks, further increasing the scale of damage in the affected areas.
Power Outage in Ghazila Village
As a result of the fires in the rural area of Tal Kocher (Al-Yaarubiyah countryside), electricity was completely cut off in the village of Ghazila, south of Haddad, after four main power poles supplying the village were burned and damaged.
The damage caused power lines to collapse, fully disabling the local grid and cutting electricity supply to the village and surrounding areas.
Water Crisis and Worsening Living Conditions
The electricity outage has had a direct impact on residents’ daily lives, halting groundwater pumps and triggering a severe shortage of drinking water. It has also created major difficulties in irrigating livestock and preserving remaining crops and trees in the area.
The crisis has deepened the hardship of residents, who rely primarily on agriculture as their main source of income, especially after the significant losses caused by the fires.
Local Response and Emergency Repair Efforts
In response, residents of Ghazila have begun local efforts to restore the electricity network, preparing trenches for new poles and temporarily using telephone poles as substitutes to reinstall power lines.
Locals hope these initiatives will speed up the restoration process until specialized technical teams arrive in the area.
Calls for Urgent Restoration
Residents are calling on relevant authorities to urgently dispatch maintenance teams to the area, install replacement poles, and restore electricity in order to ease the worsening daily crisis.
They warn that continued power outages mean ongoing water shortages and further deterioration of living conditions.
Ongoing Electricity Crisis
This incident comes amid a broader, long-standing electricity crisis in Hasakah province and its countryside, where frequent outages and chronic service disruptions have persisted for years.
The crisis is linked to multiple factors, including repeated damage to infrastructure over past years and weak maintenance capacity, leaving residents facing ongoing shortages in both electricity and water.
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