"According to information from regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day on August 14, 53 forest fires were liquidated in Russia on an area of 6303 hectares," RIA Novosti quoted the message.
It is specified that by 00:00 Saturday, August 15, 91 forest fires were active in Russia, which were actively extinguished.
On August 10 it became known that the Rosleskhoz of the Tomsk region will send 27 employees of the federal reserve Avialesoohrana to the region to fight forest fires, the total area of which is 1.1 thousand hectares.