"The air force was today operational combat and dynamic in extinguishing," said yesterday the Minister of Civil Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis, during the emergency information about the fires, made by the Operations Center of the Fire Brigade, while responding to today's reports of the opposition, gave answers on how to operate especially the Russian Beriev-200.
"The issue of security is non-negotiable," he said, referring to a tragic plane crash in Turkey that killed eight people. with the maintenance protocol and when the aircraft does not operate it is replaced by more available means, as happened in our case ".
The size of the problem
To give the magnitude of the problem that the state mechanism is facing this year with the catastrophic fires, Mr. Chrysochoidis provided data, according to which, from the beginning of the firefighting period until today, all the air means available to the country have attempted twice as many as last year, the entire firefighting season, ie on October 31st.
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