A large fire broke out today in the territory of the Žabljak municipality near the village of Ninkovići.
Firefighters managed to save the endangered houses, but the wind-powered fire is rapidly spreading towards the dense pine forest and threatening to reach the border of the national park.
Žabljak firefighters are expecting air support tomorrow if they are unable to localize the fire during the night.
"The fire was reported to the Protection Service shortly after 14 p.m. It broke out in the area between the hamlet of Međužvalje and the village of Ninkovići. Many residential buildings were at risk, but with the response of firefighters, we managed to defend the residential buildings. Two smaller auxiliary buildings burned down. For now, we are managing to defend the buildings, but the fire is spreading towards Crni vrh above the village of Ninkovići and is overgrown with a dense pine forest, so that is an additional aggravating circumstance. It is being helped by the wind and is quickly spreading towards the peak and the black pine forest is burning," Drago Popović from the Protection and Rescue Service in Žabljak told Television Vijesti.
He added that it is not a national park, but that he cannot say with certainty that it will not reach the borders of the national park.
"We are thinking of sending a call through the Directorate, most likely to send local protection services from Pljevlja and Šavnik to help us, although at the moment the most necessary would be air support, so we are in contact with the Directorate to have it ready for the morning if the situation does not calm down so that we can receive air support," said Popović.
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