Bans on forest fires widened due to tinder dry conditions

Bans on forest fires have been widened due to the increased danger from hot and dry weather. From Saturday the ban was widened to the Pardubice region in the centre of the country. A ban came into effect in the Karlovy Vary region from Friday and already applied in the Hradec Králové region. Firemen have been increasingly called to forest fires with eight calls over the last days in the Liberec region for example. The worst case was a fire on half a hectare of forest near Česká Lípa which took firemen six hours to control.