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Fleet against forests burnings: some data on the involved area

Rome , Italy - The National Forest Police, in its unit at "Urbe" Rome's airport, focuses the attention on the phenomenon again

The National Forest Police, in its "Urbe" Rome airport's unit, has hosted today the event to introduce the new fire-fighting fleet at disposal of Civil Defense, which will use flight crew coming from military aviation, army and navy supporting the National Forest Police's and civil pilots already on service. So the engagement to safeguard the peninsula's forests against the fire increases, and over...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1118034
Rome, Italy, 06/09/2010 18:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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