Aviation in Romania

Fire fighters with the Emergency Situations' Inspectorate (ISUBIF) in the past 24 hours intervened to 399 urgency situations, namely 323 SMURD (Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service) ones, 31 fires, 45 of other nature, a value over the daily average recorded in this period of the year, a release by the ISUBIF sent Wednesday to AGERPRES reads.

Until the end of the year, a number of 14 emergency dispatches in the country would be fully integrated so that they include, together with the Fire Service and Ambulance, representatives of other services, such as the Police and the Gendarmerie, the head of the Department for Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, mentioned on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila highlights, in a message sent on the Day of the Romanian Aviation and Air Force, that Romania has made history in world aeronautics.

Aircraft belonging to the Romanian, US and Portuguese Air Forces will participate on Saturday in the Bucharest International Airshow 2015 - BIAS 2015, on the Aurel Vlaicu International Airport.

Minister of Interior, Gabriel Oprea, on Tuesday told a videoconference with the prefects that he decided, after consulting with Prime Minister Victor Ponta, to rethink the intervention procedures in emergency situations, in order to ensure a maximum efficiency of this system.

Minister of Interior Gabriel Oprea has already given orders that the head of ISU Constanta [Constanta Emergency Situations Inspectorate], Col.

All four people on board of an emergency rescue helicopter, which crashed into a lake near the southeastern city of Constanta, have died, the Romanian Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday.

President-elect, Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday has sent a message of condolences to the families of victims of helicopter crash in Constanta County.

All four people aboard an emergency care SMURD helicopter that crashed into Siutghiol lake near the Black Sea coast Monday afternoon have died, with Internal Affairs Minister Gabriel Oprea voicing deep regret at their death, the Internal Affairs Ministry said in a release to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) State Secretary Raed Arafat has stated, on Monday, that three persons are missing, and another was rescued from the Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service (SMURD) helicopter that crashed on Monday in Siutghiol Lake near the seaside resort of Mamaia.