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Sweden was better prepared to stop forest fires in 1995. An effective bombing plan was successfully tested. But the politicians said no. The EU would help in case of need
A large number of forest fires occur in Sweden. Relief services work hard, but do not have the best possible support to put the work out.
In the mid-1990s, a pilot project was carried out with an aircraft that could easily dump water on lakes and bombs. The aircraft, nicknamed "Skopan" in Sweden, was added to eleven forest fires for a few weeks during the summer of 1995. It was very efficient as it loaded more than five cubic meters of water into it. five to ten seconds in a lake, five times more than one. helicopter and in a significantly shorter time.
But the government said no. Defense Minister Leni Björklund (S) stressed that Sweden can help the EU.
Following the Västmanlands fire in 2014, an evaluation revealed that the Italian water bombs had arrived too late and that the operation had been delayed due to administrative formalities at the request of the foreign plan
. "Is the state dubious about water bombs because the cost of extinguishing a forest fire does not end up in the state but by the municipalities that pay the salaries of the emergency services? ? It hits a long way the classic stupidity, "writes Fredrik Sjöshult in Expressen.
