Fire consumes fields in Safi and forests in the North: Heatwave and fires wreak havoc

Farmers in the rural commune of Jemaat Oulad Shyame (42 km from Safi) have nothing left to do but weep. A fire has reduced to ashes nearly 120 hectares of wheat and barley ready to be harvested.The fire occurred on the afternoon of Sunday, 13 May. According to witnesses, it started in a wheat field not yet harvested near the Ibn Sina qualifying high school before spreading rapidly to neighbouring fields, destroying nearly 70 hectares.The same sources indicated that another fire occurred a few metres from this locality, precisely at the places called Dar Zyati and Ben Abouch, and destroyed nearly 50 ha of barley and wheat fields.And, no later than yesterday, in the same commune, another fire broke out in a field, destroying straw furniture.Some attribute the causes of these disasters to the exceptional heatwave that has been prevailing in Morocco for nearly a week. According to some test…