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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Vladivostok, May 13 /Xinhua/ — Due to the difficult forest fire situation, a regional emergency regime has been introduced throughout the Republic of Buryatia from Tuesday. This was reported on the official website of the government of Buryatia on Tuesday.
According to the report, as of Tuesday morning, there are 22 forest fires in the republic – in the Bauntovsky and Yeravninsky districts on an area of more than 53 thousand hectares. Four new fires were discovered in the past 24 hours, all in the Bauntovsky Evenki district. Four fires were also extinguished in the past 24 hours – in the Bauntovsky Evenki and Zakamensky districts. 533 people are working on extinguishing the fires, 102 units of forest firefighting equipment are involved.
“Considering the difficult situation, we contacted the federal headquarters with a request to involve additional forces to extinguish the fires. The elimination of fires is complicated by strong wind loads and the fact that the fires are burning in hard-to-reach areas. The introduction of a regional emergency regime will allow forestry departments to involve more equipment, including commercial equipment, to extinguish forest fires,” said Sergei Boroshnoyev, head of the republican forestry agency, at a planning meeting of the head of Buryatia on Monday.
Since the beginning of the year, 174 forest fires have been registered in Buryatia on a total area of 102.6 thousand hectares. Previously, a municipal emergency regime was in effect in the republic on the territory of the Bauntovsky Evenki and Yeravninsky districts. –0–