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Sweden - Forest Fires Update

- ECHO Daily flash of 30/07/2018

  • The forest fire situation has improved in Sweden following precipitation over the week-end. The fires in Jämtland have been extinguished while fires in Kårböle are under control.
  • Assets deployed through the Union Civil Protection Mechanism have started to demobilise. French and German ground units are in the process of demobilising, French Canadair will return on 31 July, Portuguese Air Tractors on 1 August, German and Lithuanian helicopters on 5 August, and Danish and Polish units also on 5 August. On 30 July, Sweden cancelled its request for two additional Canadair. The offer of a Turkish Canadair, which had been accepted by Sweden, was finally cancelled. 
  • Copernicus Emergency Management Service produced 37 maps.


Download full version (PDF) uploaded on 01/08/2018

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