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    ISAF firefighters help battle Mazar-e Sharif fire

    ISAF Firefighters Help Battle Mazar-e Sharif Fire

    Courtesy Photo | Internationl Security Assistance Force firefighters and other coalition forces members...... read more read more

    AFGHANISTAN

    08.17.2007

    Courtesy Story

    International Security Assistance Force HQ Public Affairs

    Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force -Afghanistan

    MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan - Firefighters with the International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF), Regional Command North helped an Afghan fire brigade battle a blaze that threatened a fuel storage area on Aug. 14.

    Four fire trucks, two German mobile medical support teams and soldiers from Provincial Reconstruction Team Mazar-e- Sharif, and military police from Camp Marmal responded to a call for help from the Balkh province governor.

    The local fire brigade attempted to put out a fire in a timber storage area that was threatening a nearby fuel storage containing 15,000 liters of diesel fuel and 10,000 liters of kerosene.

    With the help of two additional ISAF airfield fire trucks and a shuttle of 10,000-liters water supply trucks the firefighters contained the fire early in the morning of Aug. 15. There were no casualties resulting from the fire.

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    Date Taken: 08.17.2007
    Date Posted: 08.17.2007 07:02
    Story ID: 11859
    Location: AF

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