Bulgaria Accepts Help from Israel over Vitosha Wildfire

The wildfire in the Vitosha Mountain near Sofia has been raging for three days. Photo by Interior Ministry

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has accepted a help offer by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over the taming of the large wildfire that has been raging for three days in the Vitosha Mountain.

Earlier on Tuesday, the head of the Bulgarian Fire Directorate Nikolay Nikolov said the Bulgarian authorities could manage to cope with the wildfire, which is right outside of the Sofia suburb of Bistritsa, without outside help.

Later, however, the Foreign Ministers of Bulgaria and Israel agreed in a telephone conversation on the details of sending an Israeli plane to help extinguish the wildfire in Vitosha, the Bulgarian government press service reported.

The Bulgarian Cabinet points out that this latest example of cooperation is in accordance with the "traditional relations of friendship and mutual help, especially in cases of coping with natural disasters" between Bulgaria and Israel.

Back in the summer of 2010, 90 Bulgarian fire-fighters joined the efforts to put out a large-scale wildfire near Israel's Haifa.

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