Over 700,000 hectares of woodland were destroyed in the fires this summer. The spokesman of the EU Commission Balazs Ujuvari said during the daily briefing, noting that “it is a record since the collection of data has begun since 2006”, he said.
“We are seeing a high level of solidarity shown in Europe – explained the spokesman of the EU Commission again on the fire emergency -. Up to now we have received 9 activations of the civil protection mechanism and in response the Commission has coordinated the deployment. of 29 airplanes and 8 and helicopters “with the civil protection mechanism and” we have assigned about 370 firefighters and over 105 vehicles to fight fires “, activated more than 50 times in 15 countries this summer. “We are monitoring the situation 24 hours a day”.
Source: Ansa
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