CTIF vice president Zisoula Ntasiou spoke at the Aerial Firefighting Conference in Bordeaux
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Zisoula Ntasiou, a CTIF´s Vice Presidents since 2024, was an invited panel speaker at this year´s Aerial Firefighting Europe Conference in Bordeaux, France on March 26 - 27.
She represented both the CTIF and the Hellenic Fire Service as the Chief of Aerial Firefighting Operations, at the National Coordination Center for Operations & Crisis Management in Greece.
Both panels where she participated were on the second day of the conference. For more information on the Fire Season 2024 in Greece, read Zisoula Ntasiu´s article on the European Union website.
The first panel was on the topic of "Adapting to a Rapidly Changing Environment ", and the panelist had to answer to some predetermined questions:
Focus on how we go forward
What are your ambitions and plans?
What are the constraints on ambitions and plans?
Euro-Mediterranean nations - clearly huge advances & progress have been made but what are the big things we need to achieve in the next 2 years, what are gaps?
Queensland – do they have Asia PAC nations coming to Australia asking for help to adapt to new situations?
Moderator: Major Laurent Alfonso, Senior Advisor on Civil Protection, Government Advisor to the Jordanian Civil Defense, Embassy of France in Jordan
Panellists:
Matthew Bulow, Assistant Commissioner – State Operations Directorate, Queensland Fire Department, Australia
Soraya Imperial, Senior Officer, Agency for Integrated Rural Fire Management (AGIF), Portugal
Colonel Mus’ab Taha Falah Al-Meleefi, Head of Al-Karak Civil Defense Directorate, Public Security Directorate / The Jordanian Civil Defense, Jordan
Fire Colonel Zisoula Ntasiou, Chief of Aerial Firefighting Operations, National Coordination Center for Operations & Crisis Management, Hellenic Fire Service, Vice president of CTIF, Greece
The second panel concerned the topics:
Global Support in the New Fire Era – With Fire Seasons Becoming All Year Round, is a new Approach Needed?
Moderator:
Anthony Marrone, Fire Chief, County of Los Angeles Fire Department, USA
Panellists:
Claire Kowalewski, AFF Preparedness & Response Officer, European Commission, Belgium
Fire Colonel Zisoula Ntasiou, Chief of Aerial Firefighting Operations, National Coordination Center for Operations & Crisis Management, Hellenic Fire Service, Vice president of CTIF, Greece
Chief Matthew Sully, Deputy Director - Cooperative Fire Protection, CAL FIRE, USA
Hilary Franz, Fmr Commissioner of Public Lands, WA State Department of Natural Resources, USA
Panellists had to answer the following:
Global support in the new era of wildfire being year-round. What is the nature of ‘support’? How should it evolve from here?
We often frame ‘support’ as fellow agencies, States and nations, but how is the vendor community responding, and what guidance would you offer?
As fire seasons become more year-round, how do we avoid ‘beggar thy neighbour’ outcomes?’
