To help combat the large-scale forest fires ravaging the Alexandroupolis region in Greece, the EU is mobilising and coordinating unprecedented resources through the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), including air assets from its rescEU strategic equipment reserve, firefighters, vehicles and satellite maps, said the European Commission on Tuesday 29 August.
More than 81,000 hectares have been burnt to date in the region, making it “the biggest wildfires ever recorded in the EU”,...