TIRANA, August 14/ATA/ Two multipurpose planes of the Armed Forces of Romania arrived in Albania today, joining the efforts of the Albanian forces to combat wildfires in some problematic areas of the country.
The two planes come to our country in context of support of the European Civil Protection Mechanism where Albania is also a part.
The Romanian crews will be deployed for almost 10 days at the Kuçova Air Base. The National Civil Protection Agency will coordinate their activity as they get engaged beginning from today to combat wildfires especially in the areas where the situation is most critical.
Present at the landing of the two planes from Romania with their crews, Minister of Defense Pirro Vëngu thanked the Romanian authorities for the help in these difficult moments.
One of the two military planes is of C-27J (Spartan) model which will get engaged in firefighting operations and the other C-130 (Hercules) will be used to provide logistical support to the C-27J, while the capacity is 6 tons of water per every flight. /m.m/p.s./
