The high temperatures and the fires that have "overtaken" every area of Albania, seem not to have troubled our Prime Minister. Edi Rama, on vacation, has found a few minutes to share two lines about the situation, where he writes, among other things, that fires are also breaking out in Greece and not just in Albania and that the purchase of aircraft is not just an economic issue.
In a reaction on the X platform, Rama writes that apart from the economic bills, the serious fire situation does not receive a final solution from the purchase of firefighting aircraft. Taking the example of the neighboring country, Greece, even though it possesses firefighting aircraft, the powerful fires have brought the neighboring country to its knees.
Rama also said that these days the country has more air assets than any year before. According to Rama, this is thanks to our fleet and support from the European Mechanism or the United Arab Emirates.
Rama's post:
A debate has erupted about why Albania does not buy firefighting aircraft, while there are some calculations to be made and the fires of recent days are by no means a matter of one or two or even three aircraft! Okay, it would be nice to have them, but… By assuring everyone that we have more air assets these days than any year before, thanks to our fleet and support from the European Mechanism or the United Arab Emirates, I invite everyone to raise a question: What about our neighbors, Greece and Italy or Turkey and Spain, who are burning worse than any other year, do they have a shortage of aircraft?! Here is some information based on references from the Greek press itself for Greece, for example: Greece has a total air fleet of 77 firefighting aircraft; there are no more than 20 helicopters; approximately 3,500 other vehicles and firefighting equipment of all types and functions. So, simply put. The more the better, without a doubt, but still, curing the consequences does not eliminate the causes, which are several, are the same for all countries suffering from fires this season (some much worse than us, by the way) and are much more complex than they seem when you count the planes.
