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Foreign firefighters arrive in Greece for summer wildfire season
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ATHENS, 03 July 2022, (TON): Several dozen Romanian and Bulgarian firefighters took up their posts in Greece, the first members of a European force being deployed to the country to provide backup in case of major wildfires during the summer.
More than 200 firefighters and equipment from Bulgaria, France, Germany, Romania, Norway and Finland will be on standby during the hottest months of July and August in Greece, where a spate of wildfires caused devastation last summer.
A group of 28 Romanian firefighters with eight vehicles, and 16 firefighters from Bulgaria with four vehicles, were the first to arrive for the two-month mission, financed and coordinated under the European Union’s civil protection mechanism.
Greek Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides said “we thank you very much for coming to help us during a difficult summer for our country, and for proving that European solidarity is not just theoretical, it’s real.”
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