Fires, we can not buy planes / Peleshi: Two BlackHock helicopters will come next year

We should not make a name for why we had a serious fire in Sazan this year, said Minister Peleshi, if we look at the map of last year’s fires.

“The map is red oj I wish we jo do not have a long summer ahead and not one but many fires. Extinguishing fires is not just a matter of air capacity. Appeal to the emergency chain… we must fight the mentality that the fire is extinguished by the armed force by helicopter. If we simplify it like this, it is impossible to withstand any fire in all of Albania. “Years from 61 municipalities we had fires in 60 municipalities”, said Niko Peleshi.

Even for the expected fires this summer that have started, the hope will be water jets from neighboring countries.

“We do not have special aircraft for firefighting. A small country like Albania does not benefit from buying a Canadian aircraft for shutdown…, it costs 50 million euros. We are not at that stage to invest 50 million euros to use it for 1 month. “Also added are the maintenance costs which are very high”, said Peleshi.

Minister Niko Peleshi for the first time explained the saga created by the repair of the Kugar helicopter.

“There is a problem with the Kugar helicopter since August 2020. It has made forced landings in Italy… a French company that did the maintenance failed to bring it to Albania… the company claims that it did not land for its own problems… we claim that it landed for their fault… a third party was contracted to do the inspection to tell us who was at fault… we have a bill to pay but that we paid mund this can be shared by a lawsuit. “I do not want to prejudice him.” said the minister.

To the seven generation 4 helicopters that Albania currently has, will be added in the second half of next year, according to Minister Peleshi, two more BlackHock helicopters for which payment has been made.

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