09.07.2025.
Minister Gašić visits fire-affected areas and families in the vicinity of Kruševac
Defence Minister Bratislav Gašić have visited today fire-affected areas in the vicinity of Kruševac and spoke with locals about the disaster that has hit the Rasina District these days.
In the Makrešane Local Community, he visited the completely destroyed household of Zorica and Goran Sremčević, who were placed with a foster family after the fire, and then he visited the household of Zoran Andrejić in the Gaglovo Local Community in the Mali Šiljegovac settlement, where residential and all auxiliary buildings burned down.
Minister Gašić said that at today's session of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, a decision was made to form a Commission for Damage Recovery and Assistance to all those who lost their property in the wildfires that hit Serbia in the past four days.
- In our Kruševac and Rasina District, there were 26 fires in one day. My suggestion to the mayor, the business association and others was that we ourselves go to the five households that burned down on Monday, as soon as possible. These are difficult situations, and with the meteorological changes that have affected the entire world, including our country, there are also a number of irresponsible individuals who do not understand that at temperatures of 40 degrees and above they must not burn stubble and low vegetation in the fields, because such events may occur - Minister Gašić said.
He emphasised that all measures will be taken to provide the locals with new homes in the next two months.
- We will call on all socially responsible companies, our public companies, our businessmen of the City of Kruševac to provide everything they need as quickly as possible, because we cannot wait for September and autumn. It is up to us to unite now, here in Kruševac, to rebuild these five buildings, which we unfortunately had, as soon as possible and return people to their homes - the Minister of Defence underlined and thanked the Serbian Armed Forces, the Ministry of the Interior, the Emergency Situations Department of the City of Kruševac, as well as Trayal Corporation, Henkel and Cooper Tires companies that provided their tankers to help in extinguishing the fire.
The event was attended by the Ivan Manojlović, Mayor of Kruševac, Aleksandar Lazarević, Head of the Emergency Situations Department in Kruševac, Dušan Todorović, Head of Defence and Emergency Situations Department in Kruševac, Colonel Nikola Matović, Deputy Head of the Defence Minister's Private Office, Lieutenant Colonel Milinko Nenadović, Commander of the Rasina Brigade and representatives of the Ministry of the Interior.
