The firefighting and rescue forces of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Emergency Situations dispatched to fraternal Turkey to fight forest fires under the instruction of President Ilham Aliyev are returning home today.
Report informs that personnel and equipment left for Azerbaijan on August 16.
The efforts to contain the forest fires in Turkey involved 743 employees of the Ministry of Emergency, alongside 97 pieces of equipment, including 77 firefighting vehicles, six pumping vehicles, one fueling tank, four headquarters cars, two buses, and one pickup, as well as secondary technical means, a BE-200ÇS amphibia airplane and one helicopter.