Fireplanes over Seget Vranjica

It happens during the summer season, and this time there was a fire bihind the hills in the north of Seget Vranjica. Two fireplanes were flying over our apartment before they hit the surface west of Seget Vranjica.

In the harbour it was easy to hear the roaming from the engines each time the fireplanes returned from the mountains.

The planes hit the surface along the shoreline between Seget Vranjica and Poljica. We could not see where they dropped the water, but we could see smoke from the mountains in the north.

Fire-planes over Ciovo

From my apartment in Seget Vranjica I can see the island Ciovo south of Trogir (see trogir on a map). One morning (26th of July) the noice of planes woke me up. From my balcony I could see four yellow planes.


I could also see smoke from several locations on Ciovo. Then I realized that the planes were water-dropping planes.


The picture above shows Okrug Gornji (in Ciovo) and the fire in the hills northeast of the settlement. After dropping the water the planes were filled up with more water from the bay between Seget Vranjica and Ciovo (seen on the picture below).

For hours the fire-planes flew back and forth in order to stop the fire - and they did. On the pictues below you can see fire-planes dropping water on the south-western part of Ciovo.