{"id":12786,"date":"2026-06-25T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12786"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:56:00","slug":"grevena-firefighting-helicopter-crashes-into-lake-aoos-both-occupants-are-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12786","title":{"rendered":"Grevena: Firefighting helicopter crashes into Lake Aoos \u2014 Both occupants are safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"185\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"185\">An alarm was sounded at noon in the Metsovo area when a firefighting helicopter participating in an aerial firefighting operation crashed under circumstances that remain unclear at this time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"357\">The accident involving a firefighting helicopter that occurred at noon during an aerial firefighting operation in the \u201cAvgo\u201d area of Grevena.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"225\" data-end=\"466\">According to a statement from the Fire Department , a <strong data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"294\">BELL<\/strong> helicopter, leased by the <b> Fire Department,<\/b> crashed into the <strong data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"368\">Aos Reservoir<\/strong>, on the border between the prefectures of Grevena and Ioannina, while participating in the operation to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"468\" data-end=\"632\">The aircraft had taken off from <b>Ioannina Airport<\/b> and had two people on board: a<b> Greek pilot and a foreign national<\/b> serving as a liaison.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"794\">Despite the severity of the incident, <strong data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"713\">both crew members were rescued<\/strong>, a fact that brought relief to the forces involved in the operation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"796\" data-end=\"1035\">The circumstances under which the helicopter<b>crashed into the lake <\/b>remain unknown at this time and are being investigated by the relevant authorities, while rescue teams were immediately mobilized to the scene to safely recover the occupants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alarm was sounded at noon in the Metsovo area when a firefighting helicopter participating in an aerial firefighting operation crashed under &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}