Two CAF helicopters sent to Montenegro to help in fire-fighting
Two Mi-8 MTV1 transport helicopters and 8 members of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence were sent on 15 July 2012 to Montenegro to help in extinguishing forest fire that swept through the area of the Tara River Canyon.
Helicopters from the Divulje heliport near Trogir flew to Montenegro at 14:13 hours.
The decision to send two helicopters with two crews of eight members of the Armed Forces to Montenegro to provide humanitarian aid in extinguishing the fire has been made by the Government on the telephone session held on 15 July 2012.
Pilots Zoran Maranović, Nikola Gažo, Filip Petrinjak and Goran Petrović, and technicians Dalibor Filipović, Domagoj Čulin, Mladen Delić and Boris Melvan were sent to Montenegro.