Serbian police helicopters spent more than 400 hours fighting August wildfires
Translated from Serbian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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Outcome reported
- Serbian police helicopters flew 402 hours and dropped more than 5,000 tons of water during wildfire operations from Aug. 5 to Aug. 23.
- Police Director General Dragan Vasiljević visited the helicopter unit to review working conditions, assignments and plans to recruit additional personnel.
Serbia’s Interior Ministry helicopter unit spent 402 hours in the air fighting forest fires across the country between Aug. 5 and Aug. 23, the ministry said.
The helicopters dropped more than 5,000 tons of water during the operations. Police Director General Dragan Vasiljević visited the unit and spoke with members of the helicopter squadron about their working conditions and duties.
Vasiljević also toured facilities used to house the aircraft and technical equipment. He reviewed the unit’s current situation with its command, with plans to bring in new personnel among the main topics discussed.
The ministry said the police director thanked the helicopter unit’s members for their major effort in extinguishing the forest fires and protecting public safety.
The police director thanked the members of the Helicopter Unit for the enormous effort they invested in extinguishing the forest fires and preserving citizens’ safety.
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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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