To extinguish fires in Siberia are all working very hard and with the maximum possible efficiency, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.
He asked not to forget about such factors as the country's geography, its size, climatic phenomena, arson and the fact that " forests in Russia are burning every year."
according to his statement, rescue and military work to the 7th pot, but nature is very often stronger than men " with all their capacity and determination ".
A state of emergency because of forest fires declared in 4 regions: Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk region, Buryatia and Yakutia. According to the final data, in the area of the smoke were more than 600 settlements.
in extinguishing the fire involved more than ten thousand people, about three thousand pieces of various mechanisms and 86 aircraft, airplanes and helicopters the Department of defense, as well as airmobile group of the Ministry of emergency situations.
according to the MOE, the main cause of fires in Siberia was careless handling of fire, and in the Ministry believe that dry thunderstorms.
on the first day of the week Avialesookhrana reported that currently in Russia, there are 202 forest fire on the area of 283, 2 thousand hectares, which actively extinguish, of which 146, 7 thousand in the Irkutsk region and 126, 1 thousand in the Krasnoyarsk region.
in addition, forest fires are more than 2, 5 million hectares of forest in remote areas.
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