LATAKIA, Syria >> United Nations teams have deployed Sunday to the Syrian coast, where firefighters are battling wildfires for a fourth day.

U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria Adam Abdelmoula said in a statement that the fast-spreading blazes in the northwestern province of Latakia “have forced hundreds of families to flee their homes, while vast tracts of agricultural land and vital infrastructure have been destroyed.”

U.N. teams are “conducting urgent assessments to determine the scale of the disaster and to identify the most immediate humanitarian needs,” he said.

Firefighting teams from Turkey and Jordan have joined Syrian civil defense teams.

— The Associated Press