Following the recent spate of wildfires caused by drought and a prolonged heat wave in Chongqing, the municipality is to establish a dedicated forest fire brigade by next year, according to emergency management authorities.
China Eastern Airlines passenger plane crashed, local medical staff: have arrived near the crash site, the terrain is complicated and are walking to Beijing News (Reporter Liu Yipeng Cheng Yalong Wu Xiaofei Wu Caiqian Zhang Jingshu Bo Qiyu Intern Qin Weifeng) The Civil Aviation Administration of China issued an official news at 16:34 on the 21st. - Lost contact over Wuzhou during the Guangzho
Fighting fires from the sky in Asia Investment and innovation in aerial firefighting aircraft continues around the world, and in the Asia Pacific region, opportunities abound as governments consider whether or not to operate their own fleets or employ third parties to assist in the challenge of fighting forest fires in an increasingly warm climate. Mandy Langfield offers a snapshot of some of the latest investments in aerial firefighting fleets in the region
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The Helicopter Detachment of China’s Forest Fire Bureau was established in 2009 in Daqing, a city in the northeast Heilongjiang Province. In 2019, a reorganization of assets was performed, which resulted in the aviation team being split into two parts – the first in Daqing, and the other in Kunming, in the southwest of the country. At the time, Zhang Yinghai, Captain of the Kunming Aviation Rescue Detachment, commented: “The new establishment marks a strategic move for China to ramp up its avi