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The state forest fire fighting device will count in summer of 2025 with 53 aerial media and 10 BRIF reinforcement brigades to support the autonomous communities.
The third vice president and minister for ecological transition and demographic challenge Sara Aagesen and the Minister of Defense Margarita Robles in the act held at the Torrejon Air Base.
The Ministries of Defense and for the ecological transition and the demographic challenge have reinforced their collaboration for the fight against forest fires which this summer is expected more complicated with increasingly high temperatures and an increase in forest mass after the intense temporaryAda of Rain.In an act held in the 43 group of the Torrejon Air Base the third vice president and Minister for the ecological transition and the demographic challenge Sara Aagesen and the Minister of Defense Margarita Robles have valued the importance of the reinforcement of cooperation and collaboration between their departments and other administrations for the protection of the natural environment and the security of citizenship in front of the threat of fire forestry. Robles has assured that in aContext of climate change like the one we live the armed forces are there in the most difficult moments always delivered and with a willing service and therefore - there is influenced - in the importance of the modernization of their abilities. We have armed forces that are a luxury they are from the missions abroad and in something as important for all Spain as are all those incidents that derive from climate change and that we are living as we are living how weres and military women overturned said the head of Defense. The third vice president and Minister Aagesen has highlighted during her speech the importance of strengthening the collective capacity of response to forest fires. He recalled that although the extinction corresponds to the autonomous communities the State reinforces that capacity to any emergency and stressed that the government is firmly committed to improving that joint response. brigades fOrestales act in 70% of the large fires he said and added that the aerial media such as those we have here today are activated in 85% of them. Aagese said that the contribution of better teams and above all the best professionals it is managing to reduce the ability to damage the impacts something fundamental in Spain especially vulnerable country before the climate. to combine efforts between ministries autonomous communities and administercions multiplies the capacity of reaction and reparation to natural disasters which is why he said working in a close collaboration with the Ministry of Defense such as the one that has been reaffirmed. Contribution of the Ministry of Defense The Ministry of Defense actively collaborates for more than 50 years in the work of prevention struggle and extinction of forest fires through the full involvement of the military unity of the military unit of emergencies (Ume) 43 EJe Grouprcito of air and space. The campaign against the Forest Fire Struggle will be operational from June 1 to October 30. Group 43 has 14 aircraft planes 10 of the latest CL-215T model and four CL-415 distributed in 8 detachments displaying in a staggered manner in Zaragoza Pollensa (Mallorca) Santiago de Compostela Salamanca Malaga Badajoz and Torrejon de Ardoz. Ume will display a total of 1400 military in direct intervention tasks distributed compatre his five intervention battalions (Madrid Seville Valencia Zaragoza and Leon) and the two units located in the Canary Islands. These troops will be added logistic operational and control and control support provided by various UME units raising the total number of personnel involved to about 3000 people.Icace a year the agreement for the acquisition of seven aircraft of the new DHC 515 model was formalized with a total investment of 375 million euros two of which come from European financing. The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has carried out directly the purchase of these amphibious aircraft which involve an important leap in the extinction capacity from the air for Spain. These new models increase the water load capacity to 7.000 liters which significantly improves the effectiveness of interventions in forest fires. For the 2025 summer campaign the Ministry for Ecological Transition will have a reinforced device composed of 53 aerial means 10 reinforcement brigades in forest fires (BRIF) 4 integral forest fire prevention equipment (EPRIF) and 7 mobile analysis and planning units (UMAP). To this seasonal deployment is added the permanent contingent that has been orPeople during the winter with 11 aerial media 5 helitransported brigades and 3 units of analysis. In parallel 61 million euros have been allocated from the recovery plan to improve infrastructure improvement in the ten BRIF bases which will allow optimizing the facilities and working conditions of the extinction staff. In the field of training a call for specific aids will be published in the next few days Use+ of the Biodiversid FoundationAD aimed at pilots for operations in forest fires. In the last five years more than 38 million euros have been allocated to the hydrological-forest restoration of areas affected by fires in response to the requests submitted by the Autonomous Communities. In addition the Spanish device has provided technical and operational support in international missions in countries such as Bolivia Chile Canada Guatemala Bulgaria Greece Portugal Tunisia and Turkey.
