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It is quite literally all hands to the pump when major fires strike in Europe.

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EU countries are now routinely pooling their resources to ensure a better response.

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A new coordination mechanism allows them to share men and equipment in the face of natural and man-made disasters.

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Fighting forest fires has been a key focus in 2008, with pilot projects and training exercises to combat this increasingly common-sum challenge.

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Cooperation between EU countries also improves protection and relief for flooding, industrial chemical accidents or marine pollution

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and stretches across to relieve victims of earthquakes in China and Kyrgyzstan or of Haiti's hurricane and Mayan mass cyclone.