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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10190

29 July 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/civil protection
EU assists Portugual combat forest fires

Brussels, 28/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - European solidarity is once again at work, coming to the assistance of Portuguese authorities in their attempts to bring forest fires under control in an already critical situation which has worsened further over the last two days.

In response to Portugal's request for assistance through the European Civil Protection Mechanism on Tuesday afternoon 27 July, Italy, Greece and France immediately each made two water bomber planes available. Portugal...

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