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84 Squadron: The Firefighters Of The Skies

15th February 2017 at 2:32pm

2017 marks the centenary of 84 Squadron, the RAF's last remaining Search and Rescue Unit.

Throughout this week our reporter Simon Newton is taking a look at the various roles they perform from their base in Cyprus.

Nowadays one of the most important of those is firefighting.

And last summer 84 Squadron played a vital part in tackling one of the worst wildfires the island had ever seen.