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00:00:21Good evening, this is another red line, I am Marina Fratucan, Omiš,
00:00:25Brač, Deliblatska Peščara, Stolovi, the area of Trebinje and Mostar,
00:00:28whether the fires could have been prevented or at least brought under control faster,
00:00:32whether the reaction of all in the chain of fire extinguishing in the countries
00:00:36of the region was timely, how much the countries of the region are working on fire prevention,
00:00:39whether firefighters have adequate equipment, whether
00:00:42helicopters could have been used earlier and citizens warned earlier,
00:00:46when will we view fires as a consequence whose
00:00:49causes should be addressed and finally, what about the burnt
00:00:53areas whose rehabilitation sometimes lasts for several decades,
00:00:57more prevention, less operation, about fires in the countries.
00:01:00of the region on the red line tonight, Slobodan Milanović, professor at the Faculty of Forestry
00:01:04in Belgrade, Slavko Tucaković, chief fire commander in Croatia,
00:01:08and Božidar Kasalo, head of civil
00:01:15of course, during the past month and
00:01:18more than a month, actually, almost two. September is the month,
00:01:22it should somehow calm down on the ground. We hope that is the case.
00:01:26However, this past weekend there were
00:01:29active fires, primarily in Croatia on Brač, Mr.
00:01:32Tucaković, that is one of the bigger fires
00:01:35besides the one that was, of course, in Omiš which claimed human
00:01:39lives, as far as I understand, 14%
00:01:42of Brač was burned, you correct me if that is
00:01:45not true, a large number of firefighters, around 200, as
00:01:49the data shows, from the wider area, dozens
00:01:51of vehicles, water bombers and so
00:01:54on, I mentioned prevention in the introduction,
00:01:57you also spoke about that. What would
00:02:01you say now, at the end of September and
00:02:05after a really turbulent fire season in
00:02:08Croatia, what is the situation, who really failed,
00:02:19the fire was localized in the area of Brač, we can state that according
00:02:23to preliminary estimates, we have about 5,000 hectares
00:02:26of burned area, so dry grass, low vegetation.
00:02:30some pine forest, so
00:02:33a large number of firefighters, so who came to
00:02:37extinguish this fire, so first of all forces from the island of Brač were mobilized,
00:02:41then Split-Dalmatia County which were immediately introduced, and
00:02:44at the same time forces were mobilized
00:02:46from the entire coast, from Primorsko-Goranska, Istrian and
00:02:50all the way to Dubrovnik-Neretva, Šibenik, Zadar, so all the forces
00:02:54that were needed at that moment, uh,
00:02:57went to Brač, so to fight with this. uh fire, so,
00:03:01besides that fire on Brač, which was, which was really
00:03:05big, fierce, let's remember the fire near Omiš which was
00:03:08devastating, I would call it, I don't know, in my 15
00:03:12years of career as chief fire commander, I haven't experienced
00:03:16such a fire, something so terrible, and when we talk about
00:03:19the color of the flame itself, it was not yellow, nor orange, nor
00:03:23red, but purple, which spread really due to strong
00:03:27winds, unfortunately there were
00:03:30fatalities, so there are still people in
00:03:34the hospital in serious condition, truly sincere condolences to all
00:03:38those who suffered here in
00:03:41the fire, so a great material damage that
00:03:44occurred, so to people, part of the houses
00:03:47burned or scorched, so on agricultural and
00:03:50objects, but also vineyards and everything that happened, that is
00:03:53an irreparable damage when a fire occurs, so not only
00:03:57in the sense that we talk about... about direct damage, but
00:04:01that long-term damage, so there is no more forest, no more life,
00:04:04no more plants, no more animal world and everything
00:04:08that happened and the worst thing that will happen now are
00:04:12floods or soil erosion that will occur and will actually
00:04:15cause one uh even worse damage
00:04:19that could have been, so something worst that can happen, so it is
00:04:23now very necessary to react very quickly, so both about reforestation
00:04:26and about removing, so trees, we are now here in the area.
00:04:30Milna found what burned ten years ago, those trees were still there,
00:04:34they are still there, so they burned again, you know, no one removed them and so on and
00:04:38so, so there is a lot to establish and we can talk about that for a long, long
00:04:41time, whether prevention failed, well, look,
00:04:45prevention, I've been talking about it for a long time and we will continue to talk about it this
00:04:48year, so we have already had two meetings this year, we talked about
00:04:52what everyone should do,
00:04:55how, but now we will push it even more because
00:04:58prevention is actually the key to success. Exactly this more prevention,
00:05:02less operation is therefore the key to success, so everything
00:05:05is overgrown, everything is neglected, there are no
00:05:07roads, as we saw in the area of Omiš when there was a fire, very
00:05:11few roads. The roads are narrow, so they need to be opened, they need
00:05:15to be made, but not only that, they also need to be maintained, it is not enough to build a road
00:05:19if we are not going to support it and so on, so in that
00:05:22prevention we can talk a lot and that is something
00:05:26that we all need to talk about, so about early detection, we invested a lot
00:05:29in early detection, so fires, 280 cameras, it all
00:05:33monitors, there are people, there are patrols and so on, did that
00:05:37fail, we know that the notification system in Omiš failed,
00:05:40uh, we... heard an SMS didn't arrive, uh
00:05:44well, I don't know if an SMS should have been sent or not, we can talk
00:05:47about that when it comes to such rapid events that spread
00:05:51at high speed, so that early
00:05:54warning system, for early warning, it has the very name, so as long as we have time,
00:05:58however, here when you have a uh lightning
00:06:01spread of fire, so what would happen, so one example
00:06:04we had at the Hotel Rus Kamen when we locked people in the hotel, we didn't
00:06:08let them out, we actually saved a large number of lives and the same thing
00:06:12was done in the Milen area, when we were in the area
00:06:16of the Gava Hotel, a lot of people were accommodated, they were in the hotel, they were not
00:06:19allowed to go out until the fire passed, the fire passed very quickly, so that is a matter
00:06:23of the commander's decision on the ground,
00:06:26we will continue to talk about this prevention you touched upon, so we can also talk
00:06:30about what that prevention means with these upcoming landslides,
00:06:34rains that you announced, so
00:06:38uh a very high fire hazard index, dried plants,
00:06:42so... is something that is certainly known and needs to be acted upon, so,
00:06:45to act now, because we must act now for what will happen to us
00:06:49in the next four to five years, the hazard index is very high
00:06:52it has moved far to the north of Europe, so we must
00:06:56talk about that and that will happen to us, dehydration of plants and these are no longer good, who should
00:07:00act there, excuse me for interrupting, who should act there,
00:07:03I assume from local self-government units within whose jurisdiction
00:07:06it is, counties and states, so all together, meaning one individual
00:07:10cannot solve it, because there is diversity
00:07:12of both ownership and forests and and and land and so on,
00:07:16you have private ownership, you have state ownership, that is important, so we
00:07:20get in such situations when there is
00:07:24a long drought, long waves, we get a completely different class of fires
00:07:27and that is more class of fires a than b, so
00:07:31essential oils burn,
00:07:34Mr. Tucaković, Serbia also was not spared from large
00:07:37fires, it is still smoldering somewhere, Deliblatska Peščara, somehow
00:07:41it will remain, it seems, remembered. Stolovi also, but Deliblatska
00:07:44Peščara, it would be said the most, uh, you talked
00:07:47a lot about preventive action of some
00:07:51four factors, right? that we should
00:07:54take into account to act accordingly on those
00:07:58causes, so how would you rate that prevention, which of course
00:08:01everyone talks about as the most important when it comes to
00:08:16talk about four groups of factors that define, or influence
00:08:20the occurrence of fires themselves, where above
00:08:23all, the greatest importance is given to anthropogenic
00:08:26factors, actually 95%, perhaps even
00:08:29a greater percentage of fires are caused by human influence,
00:08:32so these factors
00:08:35must be taken into account when predicting
00:08:39the risk of fires, the index that
00:08:42my colleague from Croatia spoke about, I assume he meant the fire weather index,
00:08:46that is one uh
00:08:50uh index that defines the probability, i.e., the condition
00:08:53of combustible material and burning conditions,
00:08:57but it does not speak of the true
00:09:00danger because, as I said, someone needs to start
00:09:03that fire, so that very
00:09:07fire weather index, its values for Deliblatska
00:09:11Peščara were, for example... on August 5th
00:09:14they were very extreme, that is
00:09:17over 50, between 50 and 70, there is another higher
00:09:21threshold, where these values are above 70,
00:09:24uh, that somewhat explains why we had
00:09:27such
00:09:29uh such consequences and why it was so difficult to bring that
00:09:33same fire under control, which the members of the sector for
00:09:37emergency situations on the 21st, and I assume
00:09:40colleagues from Vojvodina Šume in... within a few hours
00:09:43brought under control, but this index knew, I assume, excuse me for interrupting, this
00:09:47index you mentioned, I was there even before that 5th,
00:09:51no or not, uh, it was
00:09:54significantly lower, on the 21st it
00:09:56was between 10 and 20, mhm, this,
00:10:00that is probably one of the reasons why they were able to
00:10:03so easily, that is, only a few hours to bring that fire
00:10:07under control, that explains the difference between
00:10:10July 21st
00:10:12and August 5th, so
00:10:16that, you said that one of the factors are of course climate changes,
00:10:20you said the amount of combustible material, man and terrain configuration. "Now, climate
00:10:24changes we can't really influence too much at
00:10:27that very moment
00:10:29or but we know roughly that summers are certainly getting
00:10:33warmer and warmer, not colder, and that index you mentioned, if it was
00:10:37around 20 in July, uh I assume experts know
00:10:41that it will logically rise during August
00:10:45given the weather conditions which will certainly be
00:10:48unfavorable, they should know and they should
00:10:51use those publicly available information more, first of all."
00:10:55because our Republic Hydrometeorological Institute since
00:10:582008 generates data on the fire weather
00:11:01index for 24 or 25
00:11:05permanent hydrometeorological stations, similar
00:11:08information on the fire weather index can be found on the portal
00:11:12of the European Information System for Forest Fires
00:11:14and what is another advantage,
00:11:18this system provides a forecast for about
00:11:22eight to nine days in advance, so you can.
00:11:25if you wish to check what the
00:11:29situation will be in a future period, meaning about seven or eight
00:11:32days in advance, to somehow prepare
00:11:36your resources, allocate personnel
00:11:39to those areas where that uh danger
00:11:42will certainly be higher, was that done in your opinion in an adequate
00:11:45way, well, I think that those information
00:11:49are not used in an adequate way at all and that
00:11:52we may have had such a situation because of that, not
00:11:56only now, but also in previous years, similar
00:11:59situations, when it comes, and as for
00:12:02prevention, mhm, what remains for us
00:12:05is to try to manage
00:12:08combustible material for a longer period, that's the only thing we can
00:12:11influence, in the sense, we can also influence people,
00:12:15but let's remember the situation from before, from
00:12:18last year when we had over 600 fires in one day, meaning
00:12:22there will always be a certain number of people
00:12:26who, no matter how much we raise awareness about the importance of forests,
00:12:30the danger of fires, simply
00:12:33that information will not reach a certain number of people or they
00:12:37will not process it, they will not accept it,
00:12:40they will behave as they behave, meaning they will light
00:12:43some 600 fires every day somewhere, but it will depend
00:12:47on this fire weather index, that is, on the state of combustible material, to be
00:12:51more precise, whether those
00:12:54600... fires will become real fires that will
00:12:57then be a big challenge for the resources
00:13:01we have and which we can use for extinguishing. In the continuation,
00:13:04we will also see the story from Omiš, unfortunately from Eliblad's sandy area, and
00:13:08what you mentioned, that the information was not used in an adequate way,
00:13:12do you expect an investigation,
00:13:25"Since a lot has really burned, it's not negligible, I think some
00:13:28lessons need to be learned so that in the future, in
00:13:32the future, more publicly available
00:13:35information should be used, and information that could be made publicly available if
00:13:39some funds were invested uh so that
00:13:43these information could be produced, which firefighters, i.e., in our case,
00:13:46members of the emergency services could use very usefully
00:13:50in such a way as to save their
00:13:53lives, but also property and, above all,
00:13:56the environment, we often forget that, you didn't answer me
00:14:00about this responsibility, do you expect, I know it's not your
00:14:03purview,
00:14:06but do you simply expect, as someone who deals with these
00:14:10issues, not to start, but I
00:14:14deal with fire research, this I assume there are
00:14:17responsible parties in uh the Ministry of Internal
00:14:21Affairs who should conduct investigations related to the origin...
00:14:25But these things can be seen if they will come to that, when it comes to Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:14:29Mr. Kasalo, fires have not bypassed Bosnia and Herzegovina either, Trebinje,
00:14:32Mostar, Livno near you, everything
00:14:35burned around, so
00:14:38how would you assess, we saw problems with
00:14:42equipment, outdated
00:14:45uh, but also nevertheless defended areas,
00:14:48how would you assess, here, it's already here, we hope the fire
00:14:52season is coming to an end for you too.
00:15:03fire season, although we
00:15:06m, are not sufficiently equipped
00:15:09with equipment that should benefit firefighters and fire forces and
00:15:13civil protection services that
00:15:16act against fires, the vehicle
00:15:19fleet, for example, is older, the average age of the vehicle fleet is over 30
00:15:23years old. and
00:15:25we don't have, how should I say, local self-governments
00:15:29are facing the fact that mostly only they finance
00:15:33mm firefighting, very little
00:15:36comes from higher levels of government
00:15:39in the future if this continues it will not
00:15:43be good, we will not be able to act because all the
00:15:46seasons are demanding. in
00:15:49this moment, there is also a large
00:15:52neighboring municipality of Kosuše and Croatian
00:15:56water bombers and on this occasion to value
00:15:59great help
00:16:01the government of the republic often when the population and objects are threatened. sends,
00:16:05also
00:16:09a very important
00:16:12role as legal
00:16:14entities,
00:16:18forest companies that
00:16:21manage forests should
00:16:24do much more regarding fire
00:16:26roads, clearances and so on so that
00:16:29mm fires can be prevented
00:16:33in an adequate way, also.
00:16:36We also have a lot of
00:16:39low forest areas, so that causes problems for us,
00:16:52and Herzegovina over 75,000 hectares have burned,
00:16:56it is now compared that fires destroyed an area equal
00:16:58to 105,000 football fields and that it will be
00:17:02even worse in the future, what is the problem with
00:17:06Bosnia and Herzegovina, who... I understand, uh,
00:17:09there are no dedicated firefighting aircraft in Bosnia and
00:17:12Herzegovina that should uh
00:17:15exist, but they are not there, so they
00:17:18say,
00:17:21yes, mhm, tell me, for the last two years the Canton of Herceg-Bosna,
00:17:24West Herzegovina and Herzegovina-Neretva
00:17:28Canton have signed an agreement and
00:17:32rented e-tractors from the Republic of Croatia which proved to be of great help
00:17:35in two seasons, only the airport
00:17:39hill in Lino is used for the operation of air
00:17:42tractors, where they refuel when it comes to fires in
00:17:46Herceg-Bosna Canton,
00:17:49only a minimum of 50 mm
00:17:52flights were made from there,
00:17:54but of course higher levels of government
00:17:58should have been preparing for a long time
00:18:01to acquire your own,
00:18:04yes, so either helicopters or what
00:18:06could be water bombers or perhaps for our
00:18:10area helicopters,
00:18:13because the land forces on
00:18:16inaccessible forest terrains
00:18:19uh can do very little, there are high
00:18:22altitudes involved mm
00:18:26cliffs, ravines and so on, where sometimes it's impossible to reach
00:18:30to operate in those
00:18:34areas, yes, uh... What
00:18:36can be read is that Bosnia and Herzegovina actually has helicopters that
00:18:40can be engaged in extinguishing fires, but it does not have its own specialized
00:18:44firefighting fleet, so let's go back to
00:18:47Omiš, where unfortunately there were human casualties, so a catastrophic
00:18:50fire hit the area of Omiš and surrounding
00:18:54places in mid-August 2026, Lokvar, Ogoznica,
00:18:57Mimice, Nemira, Staničići. Three people
00:19:00died, more than 40 were injured, and over
00:19:032,000 people were evacuated. Croatia and the City of Zagreb offered assistance in
00:19:07remedying the consequences of the fire, however, the question remains, which we
00:19:11also discussed, whether it could have been prevented to what extent and why the early
00:19:15warning and crisis management system, which cost
00:19:188.4 million euros, failed. SMS messages were not received
00:19:22by residents of Omiš, nor by numerous domestic, nor foreign tourists.
00:19:26In this battle with nature,
00:19:29everyone lost. As soon as night fell, hell descended
00:19:33upon Omiš. Strong winds with... elements of hurricane
00:19:36bora pushed the fire over the mountain, a dry
00:19:40thousand hectares burned, the fire reached the cliffs of the city,
00:19:43people in panic abandoned their homes, left cars on
00:19:47the main road, fled to the sea, darkness served
00:19:51the guests who told me they felt some smoke, I didn't
00:19:54pay attention to that because the cook always burns wood and
00:19:57we thought it was and at one moment I turned my head and saw
00:20:01a big flame, I grabbed a hose to go and put it out, but it...
00:20:05"It started to blow, it lifted everything, I barely saved my car,
00:20:08I sat at the last moment and ran away, tea, he said,
00:20:12look, sparks are flying, and
00:20:16I flew out, the house was left unlocked, I grabbed
00:20:19my porridge, look how I started, fire is burning on
00:20:22both sides, I'm driving the car, and behind the fire
00:20:26are catastrophic and enormous material
00:20:29consequences, burned houses, cars,
00:20:32black and broken trees that are still smoking."
00:20:36Firefighters who fought the blaze all night near
00:20:40Omiš say that when they arrived at this very specific and
00:20:43inaccessible terrain, the fire was already in its full-blown
00:20:47phase. Upon arriving at the scene, houses were already threatened, we had to fight for
00:20:50every house, every street, now when a fire burns
00:20:54100 hectares in four hours, you yourselves
00:20:58know the power of that fire, the power of nature. The sports
00:21:01hall in Omiš was too small to accommodate all the evacuees and
00:21:05local residents and foreign tourists, so many
00:21:08people were transported by organized transport to Split.
00:21:12The Prime Minister of Croatia was asked why citizens
00:21:15were not warned through the so-called sruk system.
00:21:19Plenković's answer was not direct, nor did he specify
00:21:22whether the possibility of sending such a message was considered, he only
00:21:26emphasized the speed with which the fire spread. Here
00:21:29the situation was obviously fast in terms of wind at night,
00:21:32if it had been day, water bombers would have operated during the day, that is
00:21:36unfortunately what was missing, I think they were
00:21:40truly so superhumanly dedicated that what
00:21:44was managed to be defended is a true miracle. Omiš was also visited
00:21:47by the President of Croatia, Milanović first said that it was
00:21:51a terrible event, natural, then he
00:21:54wondered, maybe it's not only natural, we don't know
00:21:58that and remained ambiguous. Nenad
00:22:00Nešić, N1, Belgrade.
00:22:04Here, Mr. Tucaković, we saw these truly
00:22:08harrowing scenes, I think that really, I don't know, you say
00:22:12in 15 years you haven't seen something like this,
00:22:15uh, there were devastating fires
00:22:19in 2017
00:22:22and 2012, I think, some years are mentioned where a lot
00:22:26uh uh burned, but something like
00:22:30you yourself said, you said let's talk a little about this
00:22:33notification system where you said that
00:22:37maybe it shouldn't have been, what exactly did you mean, here we see
00:22:40Prime Minister Plenković didn't comment much,
00:22:43what is actually going on, is it good, is it not good, what, well
00:22:47look, I...
00:22:50So I can responsibly claim that only firefighters, that is, the idiot who
00:22:53my colleagues command, so colleague Pešić obviously
00:22:56and colleague county commander Kovačević, I arrived there an
00:23:00hour after the fire started and I was
00:23:03in the fire all night, I was even in danger of my life
00:23:07twice, I know very well what the firefighters were doing
00:23:10there, they were defending house by house, actually
00:23:13and they only defended and evacuated and did everything they could
00:23:17so that nothing would happen to anyone. So, here I must really
00:23:21thank the police, civil protection who really immediately joined
00:23:24and helped people, all tourists in this
00:23:28area, so, I just said whether
00:23:31to activate the early warning system, so here
00:23:35it is about a very uh rapid fire, so
00:23:38a lightning-fast one that developed very quickly, so there was a hurricane-force
00:23:41bora, so the fire was spreading, we had
00:23:45conditions conducive to fire, so it was about dehydration
00:23:48of plants, so everything. So, it was an inaccessible terrain,
00:23:52it was a terrain with narrow streets, so
00:23:55everything had to be done quickly and I can truly say that the firefighters did their
00:23:59job admirably, they really gave their all, as did the services that
00:24:03were there, so I can say that very quickly at first
00:24:07over 200 people were accommodated and organized in the hall, then
00:24:10some people were transferred further to Split, so
00:24:14uh we also saw we saw in
00:24:16the report a very quick organization by both the city and the county, everything. that
00:24:20was found, who the people were there, but also the citizens themselves who
00:24:24self-organized, watering around, so a large number
00:24:27of houses were saved, we must talk about that, so how many houses and
00:24:31saved, how many lives, did it perhaps happen that we allowed
00:24:34evacuation from hotel Ruskamen, so
00:24:37we left people in the hotel, don't go outside
00:24:41with two vehicles we saved that hotel, so no one was
00:24:44injured there, so we did the same thing on
00:24:47the area of Brač when the commander made... the decision everyone to
00:24:51the hotel, close the hotel, well I can say, it really
00:24:54was a very well done operation, but unfortunately what
00:24:58I can say is that there were fatalities, that's the worst thing that
00:25:01can happen to a person, to people,
00:25:05we saw all of that in the report, the dedication of firefighters is undeniable in
00:25:09both cases and in all others, we see that in footage
00:25:12across Croatia and of course Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, that's absolutely not
00:25:16in question, what I asked you about and what you insisted on quite a bit. These
00:25:20preventions, and you haven't quite specifically answered my question
00:25:23about this notification system via SMS, just like we get
00:25:27notifications that there will be some unpleasant
00:25:30I already spoke about it in the first part of my answers, so when we talk about
00:25:34an early warning system, we are talking about an early
00:25:37warning system, it failed how much
00:25:40how many times, let's not say that, I disagree,
00:25:43I disagree with you, so we are talking about an early
00:25:47warning system, so here we are talking... about a fire that
00:25:51started at lightning speed and it was necessary to approach it, in that sense
00:25:54what would have happened if 500 people from this hotel had gone out
00:25:58to the fire, what would have happened, what would have happened,
00:26:02that it was a large
00:26:06event that was already caused and was uh on
00:26:10the ground in a very, very large area, so it's like
00:26:13having an explosion, you understand, in that sense
00:26:16the assessment was that if an SMS was sent there would be greater panic and more
00:26:20victims, more victims, that was the assessment at that moment
00:26:24now that prevention, you spoke about it quite a bit and that's exactly what
00:26:27we said, more prevention less uh more
00:26:31prevention less operational" yes now in this specific case, what
00:26:34should have been more prevention or what could have been, was it even
00:26:38possible, we can talk about what should have been done in specific cases, however
00:26:42we must generally talk about all areas of all local and
00:26:46regional self-governments, so we are talking about the construction of roads,
00:26:49the passability of roads, we are talking about the arrangement of forest
00:26:53roads, the arrangement of forest areas, we have one wonderful
00:26:56example, so uh
00:26:58the area of the city of Skradin, when we made a projection.
00:27:02"what would happen, what will happen, how big is the fire risk
00:27:06if we don't clear the areas and how big it is when we clear the areas and that
00:27:09risk decreases, so we have everything in digital form and everything can
00:27:13be checked, so we, that was done where only from the area of the city
00:27:17of Skradin uh and over
00:27:205,000 uh cubic meters of timber
00:27:24mass were extracted, mhm, you know what that is, now we have roads,
00:27:27a road, so the national park was involved, Croatian forests uh
00:27:30firefighters." commander of Šibenik-Knin
00:27:34County, so everyone was involved and it showed that
00:27:37it's possible, so we need to continue like that, mhm, well, that's one of
00:27:41the types of prevention, when it comes to Serbia, we'll soon watch
00:27:44a report from Deliblatska peščara which we talked about the most,
00:27:47Mr. Milanović, just to clarify, does Serbia have
00:27:51this, I'm insisting on this SMS notification, we heard
00:27:55why this system was not activated at this moment, the assessment was
00:27:58such, uh, Serbia has notifications when there are some disasters.
00:28:02that are coming weather disasters, whether they are
00:28:06thunderstorms or winds, do we also have such a system for
00:28:09warning for fires?
00:28:13Well, I think it's a unified system, that
00:28:16this just depends on what kind of danger it is, just
00:28:20as they warn us about extreme weather conditions such as
00:28:23storms, they should warn us if
00:28:27there is a high risk of fire in a certain
00:28:30in a certain territory. If
00:28:33if I am well informed well
00:28:36to tell you the truth, I don't have such information whether such a system
00:28:40was launched or whether it should have been launched considering
00:28:43that, and if you mean Deliblatska Peščara, considering that
00:28:47the sand dunes were burning now yes, but at some
00:28:49moments it had already approached populated areas,
00:28:53we also saw that there were problems there, no it wasn't, several populated
00:28:56areas were threatened, but at that moment, as far as I
00:29:00know, members of the sector for... situations were there, so they directly
00:29:04carried out the evacuation of people from
00:29:07Šušara, I don't know about other places,
00:29:11let's see what it really looked like in Deliblatska peščara,
00:29:13the responsibility that Serbia as a state and society
00:29:17has fallen on, and the consequences are suffered by both plant and animal life, which will need
00:29:20several decades to recover, as they say. Deliblatska
00:29:24Peščara, known to experts and the wider public as an area highly susceptible to
00:29:28fires. Why did the early warning prevention system then
00:29:31fail? The public, demanding an investigation into responsibility, also
00:29:35asks who benefited and why, especially if just
00:29:38a few days after suspicions about the construction of wind farms in the burned
00:29:42Deliblatska Peščara were declared disinformation, lies,
00:29:46the Serbian parliament quietly passed amendments to the law that allow
00:29:49exactly that, opening the way for similar changes in land use
00:29:53affected by some of the 60 large fires this
00:29:56season.
00:29:59How did Deliblatska Peščara become Deliblatska?
00:30:02Those who tried to answer this question
00:30:06could face jail time for spreading panic, no need
00:30:09to
00:30:13use
00:30:16through political, through alleged political
00:30:19struggle
00:30:21falsehoods so that someone would reap
00:30:25certain political
00:30:27points, that is simply not true, that is
00:30:31false." "It's ultimately shameful, it's
00:30:35hypocritical. Who lied on August 7th when the same
00:30:39minister stated that Serbia did not need
00:30:42help. This was the
00:30:45fire on August 5th,
00:30:47look. This was the
00:30:51fire on August 7th, he
00:30:54states that things are under control, already then you
00:30:58should have activated..."