(CNN) Sweden is battling dozens of severe, drought-fueled forest fires raging across the country, despite the loan of firefighting planes and helicopters from its European neighbors.

Thomas Aronsson, chief of operations for SITS, a specialist firefighting service based in Sweden, said Wednesday that fire service agencies were fighting around 80 fires across the country and lacked the necessary equipment.

"We need tankers, we need helicopters -- we don't have enough supplies," he told CNN. "There are 80 fires right now in Sweden, and there is no helicopter company or pilot in all of Sweden that's not involved in fighting these fires."

"A lot of firefighters who currently have vacation have volunteered to come out and fight these fires," Aronsson said. "It's a little too early to say how it's going to go. With such high temperatures, these are tough conditions to be fighting a fire."

Fire burns in Karbole, Sweden, on July 15.

On Tuesday the European Commission responded to Sweden's call for help, sending two firefighting planes from Italy to help tackle the blazes.