Indonesia declines Singapore’s offer of C-130, CH-47 to help fight forest fires

Indonesia has declined Singapore’s offer of a C-130 for cloud seeding in fighting forest fires on the island of Sumatra.

Republic of Singapore Air Force Hercules in Exercise Pitch Black 2012 (7701136880)
By Ken Hodge from Darwin, Australia [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Singapore also offered to send a CH-47 equipped with a water bucket for aerial firefighting. And up to two C-130s to ferry a fire-fighting assistance team from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) to provide assessment and planning assistance to Indonesia.

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