addition to extinguish the fire from above controls are also efforts on the ground to ensure that the fire does not flare up again at areas where it has been extinguished. The echo reporter accompanied the armed forces to see how the efforts to protect the world heritage looks.
few kilometers from Ramna – which is a conference established a command center – enters the forest from their usual green color to brown and black.
We’ve gone past the idyllic densely fields which now just looks weird, like ghost towns.
In forest visible burned vehicles and buildings from the ground smokes it here and there. When soldiers Björn Berglund and Mathias Rosén see that it smokes stops the car and spraying water. The beam lasts about ten meters away.
Armed Forces spraying this area that the fire is not going to approach the World Heritage Engelsbergs use any mil away from Ramna. From the practice lift helicopters periodically. They fetch water in nearby lakes which they then spread over the affected areas. Christian Ahlberg platoon commander in the armed forces is here with his team from Uppsala. – Fire has been very close, just a few hundred meters, maybe a kilometer, but now the emergency services managed to push back the fire, so right now it looks pretty good, he says.In addition to fighting the fire, efforts are underway to try to ensure that areas where the fire extinguished any flames again.
– fire can fester for a long time in the ground. So it can take depending on the weather. That is why we always go and try to find nodules to add water to them, saying platoon Christian Ahlberg.
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