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EU to provide emergency support to help Greece and Albania tackle wildfires
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13/08/2024
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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The EU is mobilizing emergency support for Greece and Albania, both of which have been
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tackling severe wildfires over the last few days.
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The support for Greece will consist of both aerial and ground firefighting resources,
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which will be provided by other European countries under the EU's civil protection mechanism.
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Specifically as regards the region of Attica in Greece, the commission has deployed two
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firefighting planes from Italy, a helicopter from France and another helicopter from Serbia.
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We are also sending in ground forces from five European countries.
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These include Czechia, France, Italy, Serbia and Romania.
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Now importantly this comes on top of the firefighters that we had already pre-positioned in Greece
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at the beginning of the season.
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Albania will receive a multi-purpose military plane from Romania, which can carry up to
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six tons of water.
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The two countries activated the EU's civil protection mechanism as they struggle to control
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several blazes which are ravaging the northern suburbs of Athens and the southern region
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of Albania.
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It also comes as the EU announced an extra six million euros in EU funds will be injected
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into the mechanism to increase its aerial firefighting capacity in response to the growing
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number and scale of summer wildfires across Europe.
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