In Chernobyl zone the forest is on fire

In the exclusion zone on the territory of Lubyansky forestry fire occurred on the forest residue wood and forest litter.

June 29 at 12:30 in the exclusion Zone near Chernobyl there was a fire of forest litter on the area about 20 hectares.

“On June 29 in 12 hours. 35 min. in the Zone of alienation and unconditional (obligatory) resettlement on the territory of Lubyansky forestry previously during the technological cutting down the forest to build the railroad there was a fire debris of wood and forest litter. As of 20:00 of Thursday, the fire area is about 25 hectares, the fighting continues”, – is spoken in the message.

As noted, for aerial reconnaissance and extinguishing of the SSES attracted the MI-8 helicopter with overflow device and 2 aircraft an-32P.

Just to extinguish the fire attracted 102 firefighters and 22 pieces of equipment. Additionally alerted 50 people personnel and 10 units of equipment of the Kyiv, Zhytomyr regions and Kyiv.

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