{"id":6740,"date":"2024-04-03T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2024-04-03T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:00:31","slug":"cyprus-left-without-firefighting-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6740","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus left without firefighting aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyprus-left-without-firefighting-aircraft.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Cyprus currently has <strong>no firefighting aircraft available to use<\/strong> in case of a forest fire, as temperatures begin to soar, it emerged on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1113228326\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1500096678\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-9106673045495-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The statement was made by senior forestry department official Kostas Papageorgiou who was speaking to MPs during a House environment committee.<br \/>\nDeputies however were furious, with the environment commissioner also expressing her concern.<br \/>\n\u201cUnfortunately, we currently do not have any firefighting aircraft available in case anything happens. We do not know when we will be ready,\u201d Disy MP Prodromos Alambritis said.<br \/>\nAccording to Papageorgiou, the eight aircraft under the forestry department\u2019s service <strong>are still being repaired. <\/strong><br \/>\nAs far as two private airplanes are concerned, one will be returning on Friday from Israel where it was sent for repair works.<br \/>\nThe second will be ready in two-and-a-half months because its engine needs replacing.<br \/>\nWhere two airplanes and two helicopters the government rents are concerned, they are still in the tender process, Papageorgiou underlined.<br \/>\nIn total, the department is waiting on eight aircraft but it does have the national guard aircraft, he specified.<br \/>\nPapageorgiou said the state mechanism on dealing with fires <strong>will be ready early in June<\/strong>.<br \/>\nDeputy chief of the fire services Andreas Christofi said they were ready every day, and deal with around 200 cases every day, ranging from labour accidents, floods or fires.<br \/>\nMPs said Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou would be called to the next session to brief parliament on the government\u2019s plans to tackle fires.<br \/>\nAkel MP Nikos Kettiros said \u201cwhile authorities told the House environment committee they are on guard since April 1, we discovered they do not have a single firefighting aircraft available.<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cIt appears the planning was not done properly at all<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus currently has no firefighting aircraft available to use in case of a forest fire. 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