State Has 10 Aircraft that Can Fight Fires but Lack Kits

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Devices should be adapted with a "air transportable modular system to combat fires".The content of the Air Force has 10 aircraft that can fight fires but you need "kits" to appear first in Journal i.

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Portugal has 10 aircraft that can be used to combat rural fires, but did not buy the kits necessary to adapt them for this purpose.

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The Minister of Internal Administration, Maria Lúcia Amaral, has ensured today that the country is channeling the “great effort that has been made so far” to combat forest fires, ensuring that they are mobilized “all available means”. “We have all the means available within what is possible, because unfortunately there is always a shortage. Those that we have are the greatest effort that has ever been made [in the fight against forest fires]. If…

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Maria Lúcia Amaral guarantees that Portugal has "all the means available within what is possible". "Because unfortunately there is always a shortage," explains

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The Minister of Internal Administration, Maria Lucia Amaral, said this Thursday, that there is "always a shortage of means" but that is being done "the greatest effort" on the ground, for the purpose of fires that have reached various areas of the country. "We have 72 helicopters to operate, aircraft depend on the collaboration between the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (ANEPC), the Air Force and the Ministry of Defence," said…

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In order to be used in the fight against fires, these aircraft would have to be adapted with a "air transportable modular fire-fighting system", which integrates a tank with capacity to carry 12 thousand litres.