{"id":112815,"date":"2026-08-07T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/112815\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:08:15","slug":"swiss-army-completes-firefighting-mission-in-corsica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/112815\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss army completes firefighting mission in Corsica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786115294_317_ba4578a4928203e907e1a3dfac201c8f18fb00ce-91863070.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Swiss Army completes fire-fighting operation in Corsica\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Swiss Army completes fire-fighting operation in Corsica            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        The 22 members of the Swiss armed forces, who had been fighting the forest fires in Corsica using three Super Puma helicopters, returned to Switzerland on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        August 7, 2026 &#8211; 15:41\n<\/p>\n<p>Since July 28, they had dropped 452 tonnes of water to extinguish the fires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/climate-adaptation\/how-to-prevent-wildfires-in-switzerland-and-europe\/91795301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ How to prevent wildfires in Switzerland and Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the army gave a positive assessment of the 11-day operation. The team had supported the French authorities, at their request, particularly in terrain that was difficult to access, and had made an important contribution to fighting the forest fires. <\/p>\n<p>The cooperation had worked \u201cexcellently\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation was particularly demanding due to the high temperatures, the intense heat and the challenging topographical conditions on the ground,\u201d the army added. A great deal of valuable experience had been gained for future similar operations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the army extended its mission in Corsica by four days due to the continuing need for support. <\/p>\n<p>Swiss assistance was also provided during fire-fighting operations on the French Atlantic coast. There, specialists from the Geneva Fire and Rescue Service supported the fire-fighting efforts of the local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786115295_451_6b702ac5787cee56fbedf3652ba9e93fcaacec1e-91811823.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Swiss Army uses helicopters to fight fires in Corsica\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Foreign Affairs\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss Army helps fight fires in Corsica    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jul 29, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Three Swiss Army helicopters are on their way to fight forest fires on the French island of Corsica.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/swiss-army-uses-helicopters-to-fight-fires-in-corsica\/91813936\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss Army helps fight fires in Corsica<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swiss Army completes fire-fighting operation in Corsica Keystone-SDA The 22 members of the Swiss armed forces, who had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,454,312,1433,100,103,17],"class_list":["post-112815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-climate-adaptation","tag-beat-various","tag-disaster","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117054859224109602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}