Wildfires in Albania.

Mid July 2021 Albania territory was affected by a

heat wave with temperature which reached up to
43 degrees in Kucove. Because of this high
temperature and some man made behaviors
( shapers burning grass, people throwing flaming
cigarettes while passing near forests, burning
straw etc.) while fires spread in different areas of
Albania country. For several days , Albania had
been engulfed by fires, almost throughout its
territory.

According to official data from the Civil Emergency Agency, the fires had spread from north
to south, including forests, pastures and private property in 13 districts: Shkodra, Lezha,
Puka, Elbasan, Fier, Skrapar, Durres, Tirana, Vlora, Gjirokastra, Përmet and Saranda where 9
fires were active. Hundreds of hectares of forests, pastures and thousands of olive roots had
been destroyed in Vlora and Fier. Residents of 3 villages in the Drino River valley in
Gjirokastra had been evacuated by Police and Army forces. There were 521 military forces
at the scene, dozens from the local government as fire and civil emergency forces, 50
vehicles. Work was underway to extinguish the flames from the air with FA helicopters and
contracted.

Meanwhile Albanian Government had required help from EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Albanian Red Cross was following very closely the situation mostly through RC branches in
affected areas. Also they raised
awareness through social media
(FB, Instagram, Website etc) for
preventing dangerous behaviors
(mentioned above) and also had
avoided going out during the high
temperatures. For several days,
the operational forces, effectives
of the Army, firefighters, civil
emergency troups and local
services had been working to
extinguish fires in various areas of the country. After days of uninterrupted work, the fires
had been extinguished.

Worked by:Desantila Shameti

Floods in Albania.

In Albania on January 10, 2021, a flood

was reported that had affected large
areas in the north of the country after
a heavy rain that started on January 6.
The flood that had affected the Drin
River area in the districtof Lezha and
this caused 28 families to be evacuated
from their homes.
About 2,850 hectares of land is under
water. Due to the non-stop of heavy
rains, landslides caused damage to 6
buildings in the city of Lezha and 2 in
Mirdita.

About 1500 inhabitants have remained isolated as from all this flood occur and other
damages the bridge of Kalivaç was destroyed.
Meanwhile around 4,080 hectares of land is under water in Shkodër County. On 08 January,
MoD reported that 75 residents of Ana e Malit were evacuated. Landslides were also
reported in the county, causing damage to homes in Pukë district.

The cause that caused all these

damages to happen was the
numerous rains that brought
floods and landslides.
The consequences that this event
brought were the demolition of
houses and isolation of residents,
bringing to the citizens a great
damage.

Worked by:Madona Macaj