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Wildfires: EU deploys more than 250 emergency responders to Chile
Following a request for assistance from Chile, France, Portugal and Spain are deploying more than 250 firefighters, co-ordination experts, and medical personnel to the most affected areas via the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Numerous wildfires are burning across central and southern Chile due to record high temperatures.
The European civil protection response includes: a team of 141 firefighters, coordination experts, and medical personnel from Portugal; a team composed of 80 firefighters from France; and two Ground Forest Fire teams of 28 people total and a Forest Fire-Fighting Assessment and Advisory Team (FAST) of 10 experts from Spain.
Aliaison officer from the EU's Emergency Response Coordination Centre has been deployed to Chile and an EU Civil Protection Team will be sent in the next days.
The European Emergency Response Centre has activated the EU's Aristotle reporting service and the Copernicus Emergency Satellite Mapping Service, producing 15 maps so far.
Earlier this year, the EU already channelled €100,000 in emergency assistance to support the Chilean Red Cross working with people affected by the late December fires in the upper part of the Valparaiso Region, 120 km from Santiago de Chile.
More information is available online.
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