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    VIDEO: Splash News! Citizen Reporter Drenched As Firefighting Chopper Dumps Gallons Of Water On Him

    zenger.newsBy zenger.newsAugust 17, 2021No Comments2 Mins Read
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    A man is drenched by a firefighting helicopter as it tries to extinguish a forest fire in Turkey, which as been ravaged by hundreds of wildfires since late July.

    Mehmet Guzel, a Pamukkale University staff member, went to the fire in the Kurtluca neighborhood of Denizli on Aug. 14, along with other villagers. While waiting for the authorities, they filled their tractor-trailers with water and rushed to the forest to try to put out the flames.

    Guzel was broadcasting live on Facebook when he heard the incoming chopper. He turned his camera skyward, where he saw the fire-extinguishing helicopter directly overhead.

    The helicopter released its wall of water, and Guzel captured the moment he is engulfed and turned the camera on himself to show he was soaked.

    A firefighting helicopter poured gallons of water on a man as he filmed efforts to douse a forest fire in Denizli, Turkey on Aug. 14. (@Mguzel20/Zenger)

    Guzel posted that the fire was quickly extinguished, though efforts to keep the area damp will continue.

    The 299 forest fires in Turkey, raging since July 28, had been brought under control as of Aug. 12, according to a tweet by Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli.

    Mehmet Guzel was filming the burnt forest in Denizli, Turkey, on Aug. 14, when he was drenched by water from a firefighting helicopter. (@Mguzel20/Zenger)

    An average of 51,299 acres of land are burned every year in Turkey, and this amount has increased by 755 percent in the last eight months, according to the European Forest Fire Information System. Between January and August, nearly 439,000 acres of forest are reported to have burned.

    In addition, 15 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were released by forest fires in Turkey this summer, according to the calculations of Nic Surawski, an environmental engineer, and a senior lecturer at Sydney University of Technology.

    The amount of CO2 released by the fires has essentially canceled the reduction in CO2 emissions that TURKSTAT reported in March.

    Edited by Fern Siegel and Judith Isacoff



    The post VIDEO: Splash News! Citizen Reporter Drenched As Firefighting Chopper Dumps Gallons Of Water On Him appeared first on Zenger News.

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