Five Active Wildfires, Says Crisis Management Centre Head Angelov

On Sunday afternoon, Crisis Management Centre Director Stojance Angelov said there were five active wildfires.

The situation, he added, is most serious in Breznica and on Ilinska Mountain, in the Demir Hisar region, and above Kosel in Ohrid.

Through the EU’s Civil Protection Mechanism, the assistance in the efforts to deal with the wildfires consists of four helicopters (one each from Serbia and the Czech Republic, as well as two from Hungary), four planes (two each from Sweden and Germany), as well as a 46-member team from Hungary with special terrain vehicles.