Netanyahu thanks countries for firefighting aid

Sat, 04 Dec 2010

Tel Aviv/Haifa - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Saturday night world leaders who have sent aid to Israel to help battle a bush fire which has been raging uncontrollably for nearly 60 hours.

He told a news conference that there was no shame in asking for help, "since we live in a global village."

The assistance Israel had received was "heartwarming," he said.

The premier said a Boeing supertanker airplane, capable of carrying 80,000 liters of water, would arrive in Israel Saturday night, to reinforce the aircraft Greece, Turkey, Russia, Cyprus and other countries which had arrived in Israel since the fire broke out on Thursday.

By Saturday night the fire, Israel's worst-ever, had destroyed over 50 square kilometers of land in the Carmel hill, south-east of the northern city of Haifa.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/356592,thanks-countries-firefighting-aid.html.