00:00Ελλάδα είναι αγώνας, και αυτό το το τελευταίο όταν έτσι, στις ευρώνες, στις ευρώνες.
00:06Αλλά αυτό είναι πράγμα, και είναι το ΕΕΑΕΡΕΟ το τι ευρώνουμε την ΕΕΑΟΥΜΕΕ για το κατημιλισμό της εξαρτών.
00:12Ρτάξουμε τελειγουργικό στις εξαρτώνες, και αυτό είναι το μεγαλύτερο στις δύνατοις.
00:18Portugal, France and Greece activated the EU's civil protection mechanism this July
00:23as wildfires tore through their territory.
00:26France utilized four rescue planes from Sweden and Cyprus.
00:30Portugal utilized 118 firefighters and 45 vehicles from Spain
00:35plus three rescue planes from Italy and Spain.
00:38As of July 29, 2026, the EU has recorded 1,407 wildfires
00:44burning 434,976 hectares and releasing an estimated 17.98 million tons of CO2
00:53according to the European forest fire information system.
00:57That's below the 2025's record season but still well above the 20-year average.
01:03And forecasters say the danger isn't over.
01:06EFIS puts Western Europe at the highest fire risk level
01:10with extreme conditions across Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece.
01:16So this summer, the Commission says it deployed its largest ever wildfire response
01:21with 777 firefighters from 14 countries.
01:25Repositioned in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal,
01:2922 firefighting planes and 5 helicopters ready before the fires even started.
01:34This is the highest level of participation since the programme began in 2022.
01:40And there's also EFIS, the satellite system that forecasts fire risk up to 10 days ahead
01:45and RESCU, the EU's emergency reserve of aircrafts,
01:49which is sent in when national firefighters are overwhelmed.
01:52The EU is also building permanent capacity for next time.
01:56A new regional firefighting station opens in Cyprus this year with room for six aircrafts.
02:01Think of it as a ladder.
02:03National response first, EU pooled support second
02:07and RESCU as a last resort.
02:10The EU funds and coordinates, but on the ground, each country still leads its own response.
02:16Behind the emergency response sits a slower policy shift to the EU's Forest Strategy 2030,
02:22which is pushing prevention, resilience and 3 billion new trees by 2030.
02:27But Brussels cannot rewrite national forest law or bring more firefighters on its own.
02:32What it can do is fund prevention, share risk data and move help across borders fast
02:38before a fire becomes a disaster.
02:40And as heat waves arrive earlier and hit harder each year,
02:44that share response may be the only thing stopping another record-breaking summer of fires.
02:49For the full story, read our in-depth explainer on heronews.com.
