The General Prosecutor's office revealed the facts of deliberate arson of forests in Irkutsk region, said the official representative of Department Alexander Kurennoy. yesterday, the Prosecutor of head Department on supervision of execution of laws in sphere of protection of natural factors, the Roman Fedosov said Fins news that the regional government has distorted the statistics on forest fires. about the data dealt with the fires, distance to settlements and data about the time of the destruction of the fires. According to Fedosov, because of this, the Federal government and relevant agencies did not have time to respond adequately to the situation. in his vision, another problem was the red tape. Speaking at the meeting in the state Duma, Fedosov said that because of her power of the Angara did not increase the accumulation time to extinguish fires. A state of emergency because of forest fires declared in 4 regions: Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk region, Buryatia and Yakutia. According to the final data, the area of fires is about 2, 3 million hectares, 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. Only from August 1 military aircraft dropped on the burning forest more than 8. 1 million tons of water. according to the MOE, the main cause of fires in Siberia became careless handling of fire, not the dry storm. <span style="color:darkgray