In the Far East, the Forest Protection Agency put out 22 fires over the past 24 hours on an area of 1,234 hectares. This was announced on Thursday, May 11, in the press service of the district forestry department.
According to message, on the lands of the forest fund of the Far Eastern Federal District, as of May 11, 22 forest fires are extinguished on an area of 7.828 hectares. Of these, five are localized on an area of 7.136 hectares.
It is specified that in the Trans-Baikal Territory, six forest fires are extinguished on an area of 6.262 hectares, of which two fires are localized on an area of 606 hectares. In the Amur region – five fires on an area of 953 hectares. Ten fires with an area of 610.5 hectares – in the Khabarovsk Territory, and in the Jewish Autonomous Region – one fire on an area of three hectares. The area covered by the fire was 4.503 hectares.
The press service said that 1,194 people were involved in fighting the fire, 182 units of special equipment, 26 aircraft are monitoring and 15 are extinguishing fires. Also, a special fire regime operates in seven regions of the Far East. The state of emergency has been introduced throughout the Amur and Jewish Autonomous Regions, as well as in two districts of the Khabarovsk Territory.
The situation with natural fires escalated in a number of Russian regions in late April – early May. Earlier it became known that forest fire services extinguished in Russia in a day 116 natural fires on an area of 46.335 hectares. Fires were extinguished in 22 regions of the country.
