The heads of local helicopter crews and firefighting squads requested the closure because of the dangers presented by the gliders to what was already risky work, Schubert said. Office spokesman Christian Schubert, in an email to The Associated Press, said the closure affects about 40-50 square kilometres (about 15-20 square miles) in an area that is popular with recreational gliders. The measure affects civil aircraft and drones and is aimed "to protect the ongoing activities of response teams on the ground and in the air," the office said on its website. Climate Barometer newsletter: Sign up to keep your finger on the climate pulse.The Federal Office of Civil Aviation said Friday that the restriction in an airspace of up to 8,000 feet (about 2,400 metres), over a wooded mountainside near the town of Bitsch, will last a week. Swiss authorities have temporarily shut the airspace over a small part of southwestern Switzerland because recreational gliders have endangered the work of emergency teams battling a persistent forest fire in the area.
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