“In the Irkutsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the most difficult situation with natural fires remains. The main forces to extinguish the fire of the EMERCOM of Russia were sent there, and only 37 foci were extinguished over the past day, ”the department said.
It is noted that a total of 63 forest fires on an area of 11,741 hectares were extinguished in the territory of Russia per day.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to allocate about 6 billion rubles to extinguish forest fires in several regions.