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Wildfires in Tunisia
A wildfire that began in Algeria on Monday 17th July has now spread to the neighbouring country of Tunisia due to strong winds.
A devastating heatwave has caused havoc across the Planet this July with temperatures breaking records in several places including North Africa and Southern Europe. The consequences have been deadly.
Temperatures of 49 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit) were recorded in some Tunisian cities this week. In Tarbarka, a town close to the Tunisia-Algeria border in the North-Western province of Jendouba, civil protection units as well as the air force and forestry workers have been working to extinguish fires to limit the damage and control further spreading.
The Tunisian civil protection has given priority to protecting residential communities in the area and preventing the fires from reaching critical infrastructure, for example the closeby airport. The Melloula village in Tarbarka was evacuated on 25 July after wildfires broke out destroying 470 hectares of forest.
It has been reported that fires have also broken out in other regions of the country - Most notably the Bizerte, Beja and Siliana regions. Unlike Algeria, currently no fatalities have been communicated.
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| Type of Event: | Wildfires |
| Location of Event: | Tunisia |
| Date of Charter Activation: | 2023-07-24 |
| Time of Charter Activation: | 19:00 |
| Time zone of Charter Activation: | UTC-02:00 |
| Charter Requestor: | Tunisian Office of Civil Protection |
| Activation ID: | 832 |
| Project Management: | Ida Svendsen (UNOSAT) |
| act-value-adders: | Konstantin Homenkov (Geoniformation systems) |
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Areas burned by Forest Fires in Tunisia
Copyright: USGS/NASA Landsat Program
Map produced by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus - Geoinformation Systems.
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Acquired: Landsat 9: 22/07/2023
Landsat 8: 15/08/2023
Source: Landsat 8 and Landsat 9
Category: Reference Map
Areas of Land affected by Wildfires in Tunisia
Copyright: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023)
Map produced by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus: Geoinformation Systems.
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Acquired: 17/07/2023 and 01/08/2023
Source: Sentinel-2
Category: Reference Map
Damage assessment over Ras Rajel, Tabarka delegation, Jendouba Governorate, Tunisia.
Copyright: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023)
Includes Pleiades material © CNES (2023), Distribution Airbus DS.
Map produced by UNITAR / UNOSAT
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Acquired: Sentinel-2: 27/07/2023
Pleiades: 24/06/2023, 27/07/2023
Source: Sentinel-2, Pleiades
Category: Delineation Map
Wildfires in the Tabarka delegation, Jendouba Governorate and the El Krib delegation, Siliana Governorate in Tunisia
Copyright: Includes Pleiades material © CNES (2023), Distribution Airbus DS.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023)
Map produced by UNOSAT and UNITAR.
Information about the Product
Acquired: Pleiades: 24/06/2023 and 26/07/2023
Sentinel-2: 27/07/2023
Source: Pleiades and Sentinel-2
Category: Delineation Map
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