This is not the first time that the Army has been involved in putting out fires. In 1972, more than 350,000 people were recruited to battle fires, including 100,000 service personnel. Pipeline teams of military and civil defense units were deployed, complete with tens of thousands of pieces of equipment. The amount of water poured on the fire from the air and pumped into burning peat bogs by means of pipelines reached 90,000 tons a day.