Three fire engines from Sofia were sent to help the firefighters in Pernik to extinguish the fire near the Pernik villages of Rasnik and Viskyar. Alexander Zhartov, the director of the Main Directorate of PBZN, also arrived on the scene.
The fire near the Pernik villages of Rasnik and Viskyar has not yet been brought under control. The strong wind carried the fire in the direction of Viskyar, where all efforts are currently being directed, said the regional spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vencislav Alexov.
"The fight against the fire element continues. At the moment, there are employees from RD “PBZN” - six vehicles, three vehicles from Sofia have joined them. There are farm machinery, forest officials and many volunteers on site. At the moment, efforts are being made to ensure that the fire does not affect the houses in the village of Viskyar. This did not happen in the village of Rasnik. Not a single house burned down. Shrubs, dry grasses and part of the pine forest above the village of Rasnik and Viskyarska mogila were burned," Alexov said.
The chapel above the village of Rasnik also burned down. At the moment, it is not clear how the fire started. We have mobilized everything that was possible to mobilize, said the regional governor Ludmil Veselinov, who together with the deputy. the mayor of Pernik, Miroslav Stoitsev, are at the scene of the fire.