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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9249
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fires

Several countries help Spain fight fires

Brussels, 23/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 10 August France, Portugal and Italy agreed to help Spain put out its fires, which according to the most recent estimates have burned almost 92,000 ha of forest in Galicia in the north west of Spain. France has sent two Canadair jets and Italy two other identical planes, while Portugal, which has also suffered from a high number of forest fires sent twenty fire engines and 65 men. By activating the cooperation mechanism between EU countries, as laid...

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