Forest Fires in Europe - 2001 fire campaign

The first report entitled ‘Forest fires in Southern Europe 2000’ was well received by the national competent authorities, by their civil protection services including their operational forest fire fighting centres, by the European Parliament and by non governmental organisations. Under the circumstances, the European Commission’s expert group for forest fires decided at its meeting of October 2001 to continue the publication of the report on a yearly basis. The annual EFFIS report tell about the past global wildfire season.