Sweden fire fight now a very large fire west of Stockholm.
Just now is around 10 helicopters fire fighting from air, of them two Hkp 10. Most of them are very small helicopters. Sweden forgot two equip the around 50 newly bought military helicopters with proper fire fighting equipment.
More efforts are on way from:
Spain 2 Bombardier 415
Italy 2 CL 415
France 4 unknown
Norway 2 helicopters
Over ground based fire fighting equipment is very modern technical equipment of different types.
hammarö wrote:They land around 21.00 on Västerås airfield, old air base F1. They are on the Flight Radar just south of Västerås.
We are looking after the Italians, but they should be water bombing tomorrow.
And the Spains are also very busy.
Today at 10.00 local 2 Italian CL415's are visible on FR24 in the area.
Looks like they departed Norrköping or somewhere in that area.
HEX codes are 300241 and 300244, last one shows callsign CAN15 which could be I-DPCV which is coded 15.
Regards Pieter,
The Italians come from Kastrup after a night stop. The Italian planes are plan to water bomb during the middle if the day.
The French planes are planning for water bombing.
The Spanish planes were booked off.
Just now is it to smoky for flying. There is to high security risk for flying. No winds means the smoke is to heavy for the planes. The fire is very, very large. The planes mission is to hold down the fire. The people on ground are the real fire fighters. They are several hundreds who fire fights, and they are increasing. And with no winds is it easier to fire fight from ground, but very smoky.
The smoke is visible around a large part of Sweden.
With the conflict in Ukraine in mind is it very strange what people today fight each other year 2014. It is better to help each other in other problems with accidents like big fires and the fight with the environment.
You can also get the special feeling of horror, then looking of the pictures with everything burnt down, and everything black. No life, no green and no animals.
The firefighters also use high technical equipment. Firefighters from whole Sweden participating.
A special military command from Livgardet, Kungsängen, Stockholm command all military resources as band waggons for command, transport, helicopters, other vehicles and home defence. Around 1000 persons work 24 hours with the fire fighting. Many with command and information.
Even allied aircraft participate. They are high appreciated.
Now there are 21 helicopters and 6 fixed wing performing fire-fighting and commanding and communications efforts,.
Russia asked to particpate with a Il-76 firefighter.
But there are already 4 fixed-wing fire fighters all releasing water every 3rd minute. Very impressive. Now heavy crowded and there are no place for 1 more heavy plane.
Overview of Air Assets deployed 2014 Forest Fire Salu / Surahammar in Sweden: 22-24
(As of 9 August 2014)
1 Eurocopter AS 350 B2 Ecureuil (SE-JPG), HeliAir Sweden, fire-fighting
1 Eurocopter AS 350 B3 Ecureuil (SE-HJV), Stockholms Helikoptertjänst, fire-fighting
1 Eurocopter AS 350 B3e Ecureuil (SE-JOR), Scandinavian Helicopter Group, fire-fighting
1 Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama (SE-JNA), Stockholms Helikoptertjänst, fire-fighting
1 Bell 412 (with Skogbrann marking), Helitrans (Norge), fire-fighting
1 Bell 206L-1 Long Ranger II (SE-HPM), HeliAir Sweden
1 Hughes 369D (SE-JPE), HeliAir Sweden, fire-fighting
3 to 6 other civilian helicopters, including 2 from Norway that might join in at 6 August, fire-fighting
3 Aérospatiale AS332M1 Super Puma / HKP10 (no. 90, no. 92, no. XX), Swedish Armed Forces, fire-fighting
4 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk / HKP16 (no. 08, no. XX), Swedish Armed Forces, command & evacuation & support
1 Agusta A109 / HKP15 (green, no. 22), Swedish Armed Forces, logistic support
2 Bombardier 415 (CL-415) SuperScooper (F-ZBFS/no. 32 in special 50 years markings and F-ZBFV/no. 37), French Sécurité Civil, “water bomber”
1 Beechcraft 200 King Air (F-ZBFK), French Sécurité Civil, command & reconnaissance & support
2 Bombardier 415 (CL-415) SuperScooper (I-DPCQ/no. 12 & I-DPCV/no. 15), Italian Protezione Civile, “water bomber”
1 Bombardier Dash-8 Q300 (no. 501), Swedish Coast Guard, reconnaissance
Sweden sold last year the 14 Kawasaki BV-107 firefighters to US(Moderaterna). They only forget to keep own firefighters in air.
Saturday 9 August was it decided to decrease the fire fighting. The main firefighting is ongoing on ground.
On monday get the fire fighters the real rain assets the natural way.
12 helicopters remain as fire fighters.
The French planes remains as a strategic reserve.
The rest of the planes and helicopters return to home bases.
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