With temperatures remaining over 40 degrees Celsius for several days on end and accompanied by high winds in many parts of the country, Greece has had a difficult week for wildfires. On Saturday firefighters were fighting blazes in Attica, Evia, Kythera and Messinia. Residents in many areas were ordered to evacuate their homes via the 112 messaging system and there was widespread damage to forests and agricultural land, with destruction of crops and livestock and some houses.
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New Canadairs on the way
As we reported at the time, the death of two young airmen at the end of July last year, when their amphibious Canadair CL-215 aircraft crashed while firefighting on Evia, highlighted the need for updating the fleet of these aircraft, which while they were long considered the most effective in terms of firefighting capacity are now outdated in terms of their manoeuvrability and lack of modern controls.
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