Qobayat resident describes fleeing bushfire

Name: Qobayat resident describes fleeing bushfire
Uploaded: 2021-07-30T14:31:35Z
Duration: PT1M18.08S
Description: Mother Magalie Tannous was at home with her two young children when trees surrounding her house in Qobayat, northern Lebanon, caught fire. Bushfires have destroyed large areas of the forest and forced residents to be evacuated. The fires killed at least one person, a boy of 15 who was helping with firefighting efforts

Mother Magalie Tannous was at home with her two young children when trees surrounding her house in Qobayat, northern Lebanon, caught fire. Bushfires have destroyed large areas of the forest and forced residents to be evacuated. The fires killed at least one person, a boy of 15 who was helping with firefighting efforts

A man tries to extinguish a forest fire, at Qobayat village, in the northern Akkar province, Lebanon, Thursday, July 29, 2021. Lebanese firefighters struggled for the second day on Thursday to contain wildfires in the country's north that have spread across the border into Syria, civil defense officials in both countries said. (AP Photo / Hussein Malla)

Katarina Holtzapple

Jul 30, 2021