{"id":427823,"date":"2025-05-26T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/26\/ue-vigili-fuoco-incendi-aerei-estate\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:11:18","slug":"eu-to-deploy-650-firefighters-and-22-aircraft-to-member-states-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/26\/eu-to-deploy-650-firefighters-and-22-aircraft-to-member-states-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to deploy 650 firefighters and 22 aircraft to member States this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – With summer just around the corner, the EU is preparing for a new season of fire emergencies in the member states. In July and August, through the Civil Protection Mechanism, Brussels will\u00a0deploy<\/a> 650 firefighters in high-risk locations in France, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, <\/strong>as well as\u00a0<\/strong>22 firefighting aircraft and four helicopters in 10 Member States.<\/p>\n

The 650 firefighters who will support the local teams come from 14 member states. Aircraft and helicopters, co-financed through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, will add to the national capacities: France will have four medium amphibious aircraft and one helicopter, Greece four medium amphibious aircraft, in Croatia, Italy, and Spain two medium amphibious aircraft each<\/strong>. Sweden will have four light aircraft, and Portugal and Cyprus will have two. Finally, the EU will send two helicopters to the Czech Republic and one to Slovakia.<\/p>\n

In addition, a further 19 ground firefighting teams, comprising around 30 firefighters each, and an advisory and assessment team will be ready to be mobilised by the EU in close cooperation with the Member States and third states participating in the EU Mechanism.\u00a0Awaiting the 12 Canadairs and five\u00a0helicopters that the EU ordered<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Canada,\u00a0the European Commission has confirmed should be delivered starting next year and by 2027.<\/p>\n

Although less tragic than in 2023, nearly 370,000 hectares<\/strong> of land were burnt in European countries last summer<\/a>\u00a0— more\u00a0than the annual average of the previous 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In view of a new fire emergency, the EU reinforces its presence in high-risk areas in France, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. Through the Civil Protection Mechanism, firefighting aircraft and helicopters will be deployed to 10 member states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":381643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,25712],"tags":[26949,27872],"class_list":["post-427823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-general-news","tag-incendi-en","tag-resurrected"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427823"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427853,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427823\/revisions\/427853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}