In the Kharkiv region raging wildfires

99% of all forest fires happen through the fault of the people

Despite the fact that summer is not too hot, Kharkov region covers forest fires. According to regional management of forest and hunting economy, from January to July 10, eliminated 52 of the fire.

For comparison, over the same period last year 13 times rescuers extinguished forest.

As told by foresters, according to statistics, 99% of all forest fires happen through the fault of the people who are inadvertently treated with an open fire during camping. All the fires this year occurred in regions of coniferous plantations, particularly near settlements and places of mass rest.

“For the first seven months of the year 48 forest fires happened because of the population and four due to fire at military depots in balakliia. At the same time, thanks to the operational work of firefighters, the fire did not spread to settlements and other objects”, — told us the chief of Department of protection of forest protection Sergey Sultanov.

To combat an already existing fires in the region organized the work of 32 forest fire stations, among which 51 vehicles and 11 fire models. Suppression also attracted 55 tractors with gerontovrachos equipment 31 pumps and other devices.

According to Sergei Sultonova in the fight against forest fires important not only efficiency, but also prevention. To efficiently prevent the elements, foresters, in addition to traditional raids and patrols plantings on certain routes also cover unplanned forest roads, installing road gates.

“For the fire situation see also 29 rigs and eight video surveillance systems. And, for example, Chuguev-Balkanskom forestry last year introduced an electronic program for the determination of the place of occurrence of forest fire by the method of notches (it uses the tower and the direction finding location of the fire. — Ed.)”, says Sultanov. Throughout the year foresters also constructed a fire mineralized strips. Given that in the forests has established a high level of fire safety in the region reinforced the continued readiness of all responsible services.

On the problem of forest fires work tirelessly not only to foresters. For example, recently a team from Kharkiv students programmers developed and presented at the hackathon NASA Space Apps Challenge-2017 project, which will help to avoid disaster. As planned, the system of local fire detection includes the installation of sensors in the forest that detect temperature, humidity and smoke in the air. If any of the indicators exceeds the norm, the information will arrive at the server, and then on a special website. Let the system of fire able and people, setting the phone spectrumorange.

According to Sergei Sultonova, to introduce such a system in the Kharkiv region, as in other regions of the country, will be difficult. The state ceased to Finance the implementation of fire forest protection measures, the contents of forest protection and aerial patrol, because to talk about the introduction of modern development is not necessary. “We need a lot of sensors to protect them from vandals. In addition, large areas of no GPS, accordingly, the cost increases,” said Sultanova.

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