Fires have covered nearly 75 thousand hectares of Russian forests

In Russia there are 126 forest fires on the area of 74 685 thousand hectares, according to Avialesohrana.

Per day was able to eliminate 62 of natural fire on the area of 5 thousand hectares in 18 regions of the Russian Federation.

The largest fire is raging in Chukotka: there the fire covered 58 thousand 250 hectares. Nine fires on the area of 3 thousand 840 hectares, in the Magadan region, 16 fires on the area of 2 thousand 805 hectares in Yakutia, 32 fire in the area of 2 527 thousand hectares in the Krasnoyarsk region, 10 wildfires on an area 1 717 thousand hectares in the Tomsk region, one major fire per 1 thousand 600 hectares in the Sverdlovsk region, 15 fire 1 67 thousand ha in the Irkutsk region, etc.

In extinguishing involved 2 968 thousand people, 389 units of ground equipment, aircraft 26.

Emergency mode is entered in seven constituent entities of the Russian Federation: on the whole territory of Yakutia, in the city district of Pelym, Sverdlovsk region, in Mishkinskogo district of the Kurgan region, in Tevrizsky, Ust-Ishimsky districts of the Omsk region, in the area of Bilibino, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in the Alexander and Kargasok districts of Tomsk region, Kezhemskiy district of the Krasnoyarsk territory.

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