“According to the information of the regional forestry dispatch services, over the past 24 hours 23 forest fires on an area of 6,915 ha were eliminated in Russia. At 00:00 Moscow time on September 7, 2019, there were 14 forest fires on the territory of Russia on an area of 490 ha, which were actively extinguished, ”the agency reports to TASS.
According to him, a special fire-fighting regime operates in 38 constituent entities of Russia, and an emergency mode has been introduced in two.
Earlier, Avialesokhrana reported that in a day, September 6, the area of natural fires in Russia decreased by more than 20 times.