Two helicopters working to fight the fire in Greece collided this Sunday. In the accident, two people have lost their lives and two others have been injured, according to the EFE agency.
The two deceased are the Romanian pilot of the helicopter and the Greek co-pilot, according to the Skai radio station, which indicates that the crew of the other device (also a Romanian and a Greek) have been taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Several channels have offered images of how the two devices fly very close until they collide and one of them catches fire and loses the main propeller, collapsing to the ground.
The devices, identified as Bell 124 models by some media, were participating in the work of extinguishing a fire in Psatha, a coastal town about 60 kilometers west of Athens.
The two devices had been rented by the Fire Department and had taken off from the Elefsina military airport, but it has not yet been reported whether the Greek crew members were members of the Air Force, which usually fly firefighting aircraft.
Concern in Greece about fires
Some 10,000 hectares have already burned and thousands of people have had to be evacuated due to the fire declared four days ago and whose easternmost front was this Sunday about 35 kilometers from Athens, the capital of Greece.
Last Wednesday, three firefighters died while extinguishing two fires on the island of Crete and in the south of the Peloponnese, now under control.
