00:01Wildfires continue to ravage swaths of France and Spain, leaving ground crews battling to contain the blazes as summer heat
00:08intensifies and dries out vegetation.
00:13Operating around the clock, Brussels officials pull emergency assets from across 27 EU member states and 10 partner nations to
00:21reallocate limited resources.
00:24Following France's request for assistance last week, aircraft from Slovakia, Slovenia, Portugal and Turkey deployed to the southwest with Serbia
00:33offering additional helicopters.
00:36The EU has steadily expanded its aerial fleet and stationed 25 weather and fire specialists in Brussels to assess fire
00:44spread and identify emerging risks.
00:46The team is monitoring the situation, monitoring the risk in France, how it will develop and is in continuous contact
00:53with the French authorities to see whether they would need additional support, whether they would need additional planes.
00:58And if that would be the case, they would put this information in the system to all member states and
01:03participating states to try to get these additional resources.
01:06While officials confirmed all current aid requests have been met, upcoming heat waves risk triggering fresh blazes across the continent,
01:14keeping emergency teams on high alert.
