Two scooping aircraft sent to forest fires in Greece

Several serious forest fire are raging in Greece. Greece has requested international assistance through the EU's civil protection cooperation, rescEU. The EU has requested that Sweden send two of the scooping aircraft on standby for EU operations. Sweden has confirmed via MSB that the aircraft are available and Greece has accepted the offer.

Training together in Georgia for a stronger civil protection system

The EU-funded programme Prevention, Preparedness and Response to natural and man-made disasters in Eastern Partnership countries phase 3 (PPRD East 3) aims to increase the resilience to disasters in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The programme, which is implemented by Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) as the lead agency and programme coordinator, the Emergency Services Academy Finland, the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic – Section of Crisis Management, the Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale (CIMA) and the Italian Red Cross (CRI) support to establish an early warning early action-based civil protection approach.

MSB’s Director General led a delegation to Washington

Last week, MSB’s Director General Charlotte Petri Gornitzka led a delegation to Washington, to attend the annual high level meeting with US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), under the auspices of the bilateral Research and Development Agreement.