Southwestern Bulgaria Battles Expanding Forest Fires and Landfill Blaze

Efforts to battle the three major forest fires in Southwestern Bulgaria, which intensified yesterday, are ongoing. Most resources today will be concentrated on containing the blaze in Pirin above the village of Senokos, where flight equipment will also be deployed.

The situation is particularly dire in the Pirin Mountains, where a fire erupted in one of the hamlets of Senokos late yesterday afternoon....