Czech Firefighters To Help Battle Forest Fires in North Macedonia

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A vehicle-based wildland firefighting unit will be deployed to North Macedonia today. The deployment is planned for a period of up to 14 days.

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The government decided at today's correspondence session to provide assistance to North Macedonia through the European Civil Protection Mechanism in extinguishing large-scale fires, based on a request. 42 firefighters and other rescue personnel have already left Slovenia to help their Macedonian colleagues, the Protection and Rescue Administration explained to STA.

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Skopje/Prague - North Macedonia, Turkey, Bulgaria and Portugal continue to battle large-scale wildfires that have been plaguing southern Europe for several days. Czech firefighters are helping to extinguish the fires in Greece and Bulgaria, and today they also sent a unit to North Macedonia. Albanian and Turkish authorities have announced that they have arrested dozens of people in connection with the fires, agencies reported.

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Czech firefighters will also help with the elimination of large-scale forest fires in North Macedonia. They sent a team of experts there on Tuesday in a Black Hawk helicopter with a so-called bambi bag for aerial firefighting. They are also already helping colleagues in Greece and Bulgaria, which border North Macedonia. Albanian and Turkish authorities announced that they had arrested dozens of people in connection with the fires, the agencies r…

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The special firefighting vehicles and equipment, which will arrive in Berovo today, along with 50 professional firefighters from Slovenia, will be placed at the "Dimitar Berovski" stadium as a logistics center with......