Two Spanish aircraft to join efforts to extinguish the wildfire in Mount Slavyanka on the border with Greece

• French planes have joined efforts to put down wild fires at Bulgarian-Greek border
  
• Old minefield is hampering efforts to extinguish fire on Greek-Bulgarian border
  
• Bulgaria and Greece are working to extinguish the fire in Slavyanka Mountain
  

“To the East and to the North the fire is low but it has spread to a very large area in Alibotoush bio reserve. Fire fighters, forest rangers and the army will get all-terrain fire engines up there to make water strips so as to contain the fire,” Plamen Poyukov said, and added there was no danger to the populated areas and there was no need of volunteers to fight the flames. Two Spanish airplanes, which arrived on Monday, will join the efforts to extinguish the fire from the air, alongside Bulgarian military helicopters. The teams of two Swedish aircraft which took part in the efforts to put out the flames left on Monday.