Brussels-Sana
The European Commission announced that forest fires caused the destruction of 700 thousand hectares in the European Union during the summer of this year.
"So far this summer, forest fires have destroyed 700,000 hectares of forests," TASS quoted European Commission representative Palazs Yuvari as saying today at a press briefing in the Belgian capital, Brussels. Helicopters and 370 firefighters to fight the fires.
Yuvari stressed that the European Union is actively using the Copernicus satellite system to monitor the spread of fires.
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