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Swedish Rescue Services Agency to Greece

Pays
Grèce
Sources
MSB
Date de publication
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As a result of the recent forest fires starting up again in Greece, they have asked for assistance from neighbouring countries and the EU to assist with firefighting operations.

Sweden and the SRSA (Swedish Rescue Services Agency) responded by sending two forest-fire experts, who arrived in Athens on Monday morning. Their task is to study and assess the immediate need for further assistance of the type that Sweden can provide. Both experts carried out a similar assessment in Greece in 2000.

The country is now also in great need of firefighting aircraft. The SRSA has therefore negotiated contact between its equivalent authority in Greece and a Swedish company that has sent a helicopter and a crew of three.

Responsible: Anders =C5slund