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Help arrives to fight wildfires: EU sends four helicopters and two teams to Serbia; One Black Hawk has landed

The European Union has sent assistance to Serbia to help fight wildfires, European Commissioner for Crisis Management Hadja Lahbib said.

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She wrote on X that four helicopters from the EU—from the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia—are being sent to Serbia, along with ground-operation teams from Germany and Romania.

The assistance teams, she said, will be deployed in Serbia through the European Civil Protection Mechanism.

“This is EU solidarity in action,” Hadja Lahbib said.

Earlier, Luka Čaušić, Assistant Minister and Head of the Emergency Situations Sector, said that Serbia had accepted assistance from the European Union, through the activated EU Civil Protection Mechanism, in fighting wildfires both in the Deliblato Sands and, if necessary, in other parts of Serbia, according to a statement from the Ministry of Interior.

“Following a proposal from the operational headquarters overseeing the firefighting operation in the Deliblato Sands, and taking into account forecasts of exceptionally high temperatures across our country in the coming period, the Republic of Serbia activated the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, of which it is a member. Serbia subsequently accepted the EU’s offer of assistance in fighting fires both in the Deliblato Sands and, if necessary, in other parts of the country, given the extremely unfavorable hydrometeorological forecasts for the coming period,” Čaušić said.

He specified that Serbia had accepted an offer of four Black Hawk helicopters from the EU’s strategic reserves (rescEU), which are directly managed by the European Commission and are stationed in Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia:

  • 1 from Romania — water-carrying capacity of 2.6 tonnes
  • 2 from the Czech Republic — water-carrying capacity of 3.5 tonnes each
  • 1 from Slovakia — water-carrying capacity of 3.5 tonnes

 

Serbia also accepted an offer from Germany to deploy a firefighting and rescue team of 55 personnel and 24 vehicles, as well as an offer from Romania to send a team of 69 personnel and 15 vehicles.

“The helicopters and teams will be deployed primarily in the Deliblato Sands area, as well as potentially in other parts of the Republic of Serbia if necessary,” Čaušić said.

Romanian ground response team heads to Serbia, Firefighting helicopter arrives

The Romanian ground firefighting response team has departed for Serbia, while a Romanian Black Hawk firefighting helicopter has landed in Serbia, Romanian media reported.

The ground team consists of 69 personnel and 15 pieces of technical equipment from the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations.

 
Help arrives to fight wildfires: EU sends four helicopters and two teams to Serbia; One Black Hawk has landed
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They will be deployed in Serbia at locations designated by the Serbian authorities and will work alongside local forces to contain and extinguish the fires, Agerpres reported.

Czech Republic sends firefighting helicopters to help battle large-scale wildfires in Serbia

The Czech Fire and Rescue Service has sent helicopters to Serbia to assist in fighting large-scale wildfires, the Regional Fire and Rescue Service announced.

“Czech helicopters are heading to Serbia! We are helping to control large-scale forest fires,” the Regional Fire and Rescue Service said in a post on Instagram.

According to the statement, Serbia is facing an extreme heatwave and wildfires, with the most critical situation in the protected Deliblato Sands nature reserve, about 60 kilometers east of Belgrade.

“At the request of the Serbian side through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, the Czech Republic is responding by urgently deploying two aerial firefighting modules,” the Czech Regional Fire and Rescue Service said.

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