EU to provide emergency support to help Greece and Albania tackle wildfires

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The support for Greece will consist of both aerial and ground firefighting resources, Albania will receive a multipurpose military plane from Romania, which can carry up to 6 tonnes of water.

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00:00The EU is mobilizing emergency support for Greece and Albania, both of which have been

00:06tackling severe wildfires over the last few days.

00:11The support for Greece will consist of both aerial and ground firefighting resources,

00:16which will be provided by other European countries under the EU's civil protection mechanism.

00:22Specifically as regards the region of Attica in Greece, the commission has deployed two

00:27firefighting planes from Italy, a helicopter from France and another helicopter from Serbia.

00:33We are also sending in ground forces from five European countries.

00:38These include Czechia, France, Italy, Serbia and Romania.

00:42Now importantly this comes on top of the firefighters that we had already pre-positioned in Greece

00:48at the beginning of the season.

00:51Albania will receive a multi-purpose military plane from Romania, which can carry up to

00:56six tons of water.

00:59The two countries activated the EU's civil protection mechanism as they struggle to control

01:04several blazes which are ravaging the northern suburbs of Athens and the southern region

01:09of Albania.

01:12It also comes as the EU announced an extra six million euros in EU funds will be injected

01:18into the mechanism to increase its aerial firefighting capacity in response to the growing

01:23number and scale of summer wildfires across Europe.

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