Turkiye’s Hatay province of Wild fires opened by earthquake wounds | Surrounding news

Antioch, Turkey – The darkness of the darkness, which is full of heaven and wind, intimidates the residents of the Turkish province of Hatay.

“It was like to wake up, but you returned to a nightmare,” said, as soon as I saw the largest city of Hatay, we voted on the phone.

Yilmaz at Osmangazi University, in the north-west Eskisehir, about 400 miles (643 kilometers), about 400 miles of Antioch (643 kilometers).

But he returned to his family’s temporary house – Antioka is still reconstructed After the earthquake – when fires in Hatay. Although this time it was not touched home, he returned some traces of the past.

“We looked in the sky … First mixture. Smoke from the mountains.

Turkey took wild flames from the end of June, but a particularly bad beginning was killed in the early July At least three people and more than 50,000 IDPs.

Hatay, Turkey’s southeast, especially bad, confused painful memories for survivors earthquake This region was devastated two and a half years ago.

On February 6, 2023, Yilmaz was quickly asleep at his family’s now destroyed house.

Earthquake and strong shavings killed more than 53,000 people in Turkey and destroyed or destroyed a hundreds of thousands of buildings in the south and southeast of the country, including the country’s house. About 6,000 people died in the north of Syria are also believed to have died.

For more than two years, Yilmaz’s family, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Yilmaz’s family are among about half a million people.

“As soon as I saw the news, I called my wife’s wife, for the houses were very close to the fires.”

“He was crying. He said,” We are able to do what we can, we say we escape. “”

Yilmaz’s uncle, Gulderen on the edge of Antioch, where the reconstruction work continues, Antakya moved to Gulderen to move away from the city center.

The fires consume the fragile strands of the survivors of the survivors were painfully reconstructed. “Fruit trees, vegetables, all burned ties … But be thankful to their homes.”

“The grass of a neighbor went to the grass room. The animals were trapped, he died:” Yilmaz came out of his call with his relatives.

Chaotic self-confidence

Firefighters are believed to be associated with the combination of factors, including human activity and suspicious firefighters – 30 degrees Celsius (95 degree Fahrenheit) and a combination of factors combined with high summer temperature.

As the flames first covered the hills, the residents said they took action immediately with improvisation methods.

Neighbors use the well water and garden hoses, others formed bucket brigade for electricity pumps due to electricity cut.

Ethem ASKAR, 42, Serinyol’s Antakya neighborhood, who participated in volunteer initiatives during both disasters, the parallel in the reaction of disasters are continuous.

“As it was late in the earthquake, he was the same in the fire,” he drew hours to send enough helicopters to send enough helicopters to firefighters in one of the fires.

“If the first intervention was the first intervention, the scale of this damage would not happen,” he said.

Compensation, Askar and other residents tried to help.

“Our group, about 45 volunteers – withdrawal of garbage, food distribution, and after the earthquake – we have again mobilized.”

“The initial response is minimal, then, when almost too late, the more resource comes. The next day was a fire mass.”

The angry evacuations explained a defect of the accident with the rubble.

Firefighters were able to evacuate residents and animals from the mountainous villages and transfer people to their dormitories and animals, but the villages also significant damage.

However, Hatay Metropolitan Municipality Rescue Director Elijah Yildirim, rejected any delay in the response of firefighters.

“There was no delayed response to the fire. Our initial response teams are still placed in Hatay and immediately intervened,” he said.

“Additional units aimed at the same time in four places, this operation differs from the protocols of the earthquake reaction.”

“No transaction delays occurred during the latest fire events.”

Echoes of the earthquake

Like ASKAR, Yilmaz, felt like they had to trust themselves to deal with their family and neighbors’ wildfires – a part of the earthquake.

“There was no electricity … My two amounts … With their neighbors, the flames tried with their neighbors to return the flames with scoops and hoses.”

Fireworks, in some parts of Dortyol, were partially turned off, and then rebuked and became intolerable for Yilmaz. The fires started in Antioch on June 30 and reached Dataol until July 4.

“It’s more to stay here now. It’s going back to the city … It feels the shroud in the city of eternal dust,” he said.

Hatay Governor Mustafa Masatli, 920 houses and 1,870 citizens were evacuated on Monday, he said. Damage evaluation continues.

Fires on Antakya and Dorty, the head of the department, firefighting work was carried out in other areas. Samandag and Serinyol, only new protrusions in the northeastern Southwest and Hatay.

These flames keep firefighters and rescuers in their toes and build their energy.

Hatay’s Antakya regions and Antakya districts, about 6,500 people were evacuated as a precautionary measure, said that the sergeant of the fire extinguisher was Sergeant Deniz Nur.

“Sustainable instability is a large psychological tolle”, “Askar, voluntary” explained.

“People wake up with fear that something else will happen every day,” he said. “Although they get a new apartment – and many are still in containers, and my parents have been months – the main concerns will not disappear.

“How can you feel normal? After the earthquake, I knew a nurse living in his car in his car three and a half months. The road and apartments are deleted. Trauma is installed,” he said.

“We all need serious psychological assistance in two years,” the soldier. “I haven’t started working on myself. We don’t have time to cry, we have postponed it. We have been postponed. Only we are continuing what we can.”

Life inside the rubble

A rich multicultural inheritance, architecture, cuisine and festivals who confuse the rich multicultural heritage, are clearly alloys known as Antiochi and festivals, are determined by the Demolition Mountains.

Yilmaz, the student, a large two-story former family house reminded of better times, summer, writing childhood friends, child friends at the university, now in ruins

Now parents live in a 21-square meter (226 square meters of a room and live in a combined kitchen area by adding the place to the dress box to place the most space.

Summers and during the strike, three sisters return to Antioch, one of the universities of Antakya, the whole family spreads the floors on the floor to sleep.

“The biggest problem is the lack of a private space,” he said. “I had my room to tear the mountains … and we would be a large number of guests.”

Now the meetings are still happening, but people sit in plastic chairs built outside the containers.

“I went out to go out, to travel, just to breathe like a man. But the old places I know,” he said.

“Do you have new ones? Where?

An unshakable garden with Hatay came together in an unshakable bond.

Soldier, about six months ago, about two months ago, after living in a container with his wife, his 10-year-old son and parents, moved to a new house only six months ago.

“All my memories, my life, my childhood, my friends, I am here.”

“Hatay people can’t live or breathe properly. I took my father three months after the earthquake.” “When he returned, he had to not be allocated again, even if he had to live in a container forever. This land is in our blood.”

This piece was published in conjunction with EGAB.