Morocco will soon receive three more Canadair, for a total of 8 Canadair, following the instructions of King Mohammed VI, according to the Moroccan military forum on its Facebook page.
This decision aims to strengthen the country’s resilience against a growing threat of fires on the national forest estate, said the forum.
Wildfires have been raging in Chefchaouen this week.
Local resident Anas Barbala described to Hespress English, saying whenever firefighters succeeded in putting out a wildfire, another would rise up, compelling residents to flee their homes over fears of being touched by the blazes.
The three new Canadair are made in Canada, with the Canadair-CL 515 belongs to the new generation of Canadair, which can make several rotations per hour to bail and release over 7,000 liters of water in a few seconds.
Working with a maximum cruising speed of 350 km/h, and 12 seconds, they are enough to refuel at sea, in a river, or a reservoir, according to a published document on the Moroccan military forum on its Facebook page.
Purchase of Canadairs in Morocco dates back to 2010, after several forest fires that raged between 2006 and 2009.
In Morocco, the peak fire season typically begins in late June and lasts around 17 weeks. Between August 24, 2020 and August 16, 2021, the country recorded 3,537 fire alerts, lost 41.0kha of relative tree cover, 0.1% more than the global total, according to Global Forest Watch figures.
The situation in Morocco reflects what’s happening in forests globally—from Siberia and the US to Greece and Algeria. The world is heating up so fast that in a decade’s time extreme weather will happen simultaneously with multiple climate disasters, such as droughts, floods, and storms, said the UN earlier this month.
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