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"If Russia requests, Azerbaijan can send extra forces to extinguish fires in the country"

04 August 2010 [12:28] - TODAY.AZ
If Russia requests so, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations can send extra forces to extinguish fires in the country, Chief of the Aviation Unit of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Emergency Situations, Colonel Ashraf Gasimov said, according to APA.

Ashraf Gasimov says the Ministry of Emergency Situations is able to send forces and equipment to the neighbor state, the ministry has 1 Be-200 CS amphibian aircraft, 4 Mi-17 helicopters and 2 Ka-32 helicopters.

Ashraf Gasimov underlined, that to date the Aviation Unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations has been involved in the firefighting operations only in the country, today for the first time it is participating in the measures taken to extinguish forest fires in Russia. On August 3, Azerbaijan’s 1 Mi-17 and 1 Ka-32A helicopters with 19 persons on board left for Voronej and Lipetsk cities of Russia to help extinguish forest fires.


/APA/
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