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Albania asks for help from EU Emergency Response Coordination Centre to tackle wildfires

There have been numerous wildfires in the southern district of Dropull, 250 kilometers south of the capital Tirana. Fires there have been made worse by wind with firefighters hampered by a lack of equipment and the means to access the remote mountainous areas, Euronews reports.

Authorities in Albania have requested assistance from the European Union to help tackle wildfires in the south of the country.

Interior Minister Taulant Balla said on Thursday the government has asked for help from the European Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC).

"We are in contact with the Centre of the European Mechanism of Solidarity through which we would like to continue the fight from the air because, as we have seen, it is almost impossible to intervene at a great part of the existing fire locations," he said.

Fires there have been fanned by wind with firefighters hampered by a lack of equipment and the means to access the remote mountainous areas.

Albania has been hit by a heatwave with temperatures reaching 42 degrees Celsius in some central areas. The Defence Ministry says that extreme heat has caused at least 23 wildfires to break out in the last 24 hours alone.

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