Bulgaria

Bulgaria Seeks International Aid to Offset Wildfire Losses
Associated Press, August 13, 2000

Bulgaria will seek international aid to offset losses caused by a series of wildfires that swept across the country since the end of June, a government official said Sunday. Aleksandar Pramatarski, a Cabinet minister, told the state BTA news agency that the United Nations and the European Union would both be approached for aid to help restore agricultural land and forests. Wildfire losses are expected to amount to leva 38 million (about dlrs 19 million), according to the report. The worst fires occurred in southeast Bulgaria in mid-July, but since then a protracted heat wave has been responsible for recurring blazes across the country.