'We keep saying all the time that we are the only firefighters in the world that are fighting fire under fire,' Eddi Aharonoff, a spokesperson for the Fire Brigade said.
'We have adapted the ATV to not only fight fires, but also to rescue the wounded in terrain that we cannot reach by ambulance. We call it ‘scoop and run.'
Israel, Cyprus, and Greece have signed a cooperation agreement in 2016 to build a wide-ranging system of emergency cooperation between the countries, including firefighting and handling of natural disasters.
American volunteer firefighters originally came to Israel due to weather-related fire risks, but responded to as many as 10 emergency calls a day after terror groups fired hundreds of rockets at the Jewish state.
This lifesaving augmented-reality app is now used by more than a dozen fire and police departments in the United States, as well as the United Hatzalah network in Israel.
Molotov cocktails were found at the scene of Sunday's huge fire outside Jerusalem, causing investigators to conclude that it was the work of arsonists.
Twenty firefighting teams rushed to the scene of a massive fire that spread through forests just outside Jerusalem, causing the evacuation of a nearby community.
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