On Saturday morning, a convoy of Polish firefighters departed Poland for Germany to help flood-affected areas, while another group of firemen and 50 Fire Service vehicles headed for Greece to help put out wildfires.
At the request of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a squad of firemen will travel to Greece to assist combat fires there. According to the fire department's headquarters, 46 vehicles and 143 firefighters will travel to Greece. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki ordered the operation.
Fires are raging in Euboea, northeast of Athens, and throughout the southern Peloponnese. Within a 20-kilometer radius of Athens, the fire devoured the area.
The firefighters' deployments to Germany were notified by the National Headquarters of the Polish State Fire Service. The Government Strategic Reserves Agency has delivered 138 air dryers to the convoy. The equipment will be shipped to Rhineland-Palatinate, where it will arrive on Sunday.
Storms and torrential rain in mid-July triggered devastating flooding in the Rhineland-Palatinate region as well as North Rhine-Westphalia, killing 175 people.
A Polish police aircraft took out from Warsaw on Saturday morning towards Turkey to assist in the extinguishment of fires on the country's southern coast. On Friday, a three-person party of firemen travelled to Turkey by road, bringing the equipment needed to put out flames by helicopter.
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