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 ...

Airbus’ helicopters are efficient first responders and have been involved in recent fires around the world. Our helicopters are not only used for water bombing but as well provide support to the firef ...

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 ...

Joint Research, Learning & Training: Towards Establishing a European Civil Protection Center In 2021, Europe has faced extreme crises: Drought, heat, wildfires, extreme rainfall periods and floods. Th ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.  

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. ...

This presentation will cover the Operational Plan to industrialize, and bring to market the Canadair CL-515.

Wildfire in the Cultural and Natural Landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe: Small-Sized, Long Duration and Extreme Impacts From the beginning, the AFF Conferences in Europe addressed the latest dev ...