During his three decades working with British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS) in Canada, Jeff Berry led the aerial firefighting fleet of 50 fixed-wing aircraft, working with a team of fire profession ...

The presentation will provide an overview of the activities of DG ECHO with respect to the development of Aerial Forest Fires Fighting means. In recent years, the frequent and extreme occurrence of na ...

Sweden is a country dominated by forests. During the summer of 2018, a large number of serious forest fires and wildfires occurred in different regions of the country. Since then, The Swedish civil co ...

The era of aerial firefighting began in the 1940s, and with the advancements made over the past seven decades the industry has come a long way in providing support to firefighters and their efforts to ...

The presentation will describe the Spanish National Helitack Crews based in 10 different helibases all over the country and will develop its main capacities and procedures.  

Our presentation "New perspectives for firefighting" is a study about the evolution of fire seasons and their development in recent years and how the paradigm shift requires a change in firefighting p ...

The Fire Fighting Coordination Center of Hellenic Fire Corps manages and coordinates all the forest fires in Greece and is represented by all the competent bodies, such as Hellenic Army, Air Force, He ...

The presentation will provide information on the on the joint collaboration of national and international organizations (e.g. Group on Earth Observations, European Commission) and space agencies (e.g. ...

From the beginning, the AFF Conferences in Europe addressed the latest developments in the region. In 2008, the first Aerial Fire Fighting (AFF) Conference was held in Athens, Greece. The conference t ...