Lebanese and Cypriot helicopters continue to fight raging fires in the forests in Qartaba, above Jbeil.
Army soldiers and civil defense members have been able to extinguish blazes in the regions of Wadi Janna and Mar Sarkis, but fires are still raging in parts of the Namroud Mountain, where firefighters are attempting to stop their spread.
This latest round of fires has consumed more than two million square meters of forests in the Qartaba area.
Fireworks set off on Tuesday for the Christian holiday the Transfiguration of the Lord sparked fires on the road to the Mar Antonios Monastery in the village of Aarbet Qozhaya in Zghorta. Those fires scorched six kilometers of land as firefighters battled the blaze between 11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.