Macedonia: Heatwave state of emergency

Macedonia, suffering a heat wave that is expected to get worse, declared a state of emergency Thursday.

Izvor: BIRN

Friday, 20.07.2007.

09:47

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Macedonia: Heatwave state of emergency

Pande Lazarevski, the director of the government's Crisis Management center, told reporters an emergency action plan would be implemented. Details of the plan would be made public by Friday.

"A total of 217 fires have been registered so far. Roughly 2,500 hectares, which is mainly forests, have been burned," he said.

Meteorologists from the Hydro-Meteorology Directorate warned that temperatures as high as 43 degrees Celsius were still to come in the next few days.

The country’s south was expected to suffer temperatures as high as 44 degrees over the weekend, while temperatures in the capital Skopje were expected to be two degrees lower.

The Macedonian Red Cross has already put emergency intervention health teams on standby, while the State Institute for Health issued a warning to stay out of the sun.

Officials from the health and labor ministries were also expected to announce preventative measures and guidelines for dealing with the heat wave.

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