Slovenski air tractorji odvrgli več kot dva milijona litrov vode
Slovenian air tractor crews have just come through a record fire season. They responded to 23 different locations this year, dropped more than two million liters of water and logged close to 300 flight hours. For the first time, they were also sent abroad to help fight a wildfire. A summer of heat waves and drought across Europe kept the planes in the air nearly nonstop.
Poletje, ki so ga zaznamovali vročinski valovi, suša in obsežni požari po Evropi, je bilo rekordno tudi za slovenske posadke letal air tractor. Te so med letošnjo požarno sezono posredovale na 23 različnih lokacijah, na požarišča so odvrgle več kot dva milijona litrov vode ter skupaj opravile skoraj 300 ur letenja. Ob tem so prvič doslej sodelovale tudi pri gašenju požara v tujini.
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