Careless handling of fire was the main cause of forest fires in Siberia, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of emergency situations Igor Kobzev at the working meeting in the state Duma. at the same time, according to the MOE, dry thunderstorms, which took place in the region, was not the main cause of fires. for his part, the acting Head of Rosleskhoz Mikhail Klimov said that forest fires in controlled areas (areas where fire suppression is optional and is performed according to the decision of the local authorities) was launched after all due to dry thunderstorms. A state of emergency because of forest fires declared in 4 regions: Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk region, Buryatia and Yakutia. The area of fires is about 2, 3 million hectares, the area of the smoke were more than 600 settlements. in fire fighting involved nearly ten thousand people, about three thousand pieces of various mechanisms and 70 aircraft. In addition, the Ministry of defence has created a cluster of ten aircraft and the same number of helicopters. For two days the Il-76 and Mi-8 was put out in the Krasnoyarsk region and the Irkutsk region 84 of the fire. Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. ordered the governors to take the situation under his personal supervision. <span style="color:darkgray