Twelve people have been pulled alive from ruined buildings in Turkey by a Polish search and rescue team, a spokesman for Poland's State Fire Service has said.
Rescue services from Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic states have appealed to the EU to include Ukraine in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
Around 200 firemen and 70 vehicles including a Blackhawk helicopter equipped with a Bambi Bucket container capable of holding around 3,000 litres of water will arrive Tuesday to begin combatting the enormous blaze.
Seven people, including two firemen, were injured as a result of storms that passed across Poland on Friday night, a spokesman for the State Fire Brigade has told PAP.
Polish firefighters have prepared coaches to transport Ukrainian refugees to reception points at temporary housing sites, if needed, a spokesperson for the State Fire Service told PAP on Thursday.
One person was killed and five were injured after strong winds hit Poland on Sunday, the fire service have reported.
Rescuers recovered the last body on Tuesday of three divers who died during a training exercise in a flooded coal mine in south-western Poland.
Rescuers from the State Fire Service have located the bodies of two divers who disappeared during a training mission at a flooded mine in Sobótka, south-western Poland.
Three people were hospitalised after a helicopter fell into the Tałty lake in Mikołajki, northeastern Poland, on Tuesday.
The prime minister visited the southern village of Nowa Biala on Sunday, just hours after it had devastated by fire.
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