About it reports RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of Avialesookrany.
"According to the information of the regional forestry dispatching services, over the past day on August 4, 32 forest fires were eliminated in an area of 10,838 hectares," the statement says.
According to the ministry, to date, there are 171 forest fires in Russia on an area of more than 126 thousand hectares, which are being actively extinguished.
Earlier in Avialezaschita gave a forecast for forest fires in August.
On August 1, the Ministry of Emergency Situations called a long-term drought and the absence of active measures to extinguish most fires as the main cause of the spread of fires in Siberia.