As indicated in the department, the number of settlements suffering from smoke decreased from 25 to 11 in five days.
“According to Roshydromet, the number of settlements in which smoke is observed due to forest fires has decreased by 25 settlements in five days,” RIA Novosti quoted the statement of Rosleskhoz.
It is clarified that according to data on August 13, smoke was observed in two settlements of the Evenki district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and nine settlements of the Irkutsk Region.
Earlier, Acting Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Mikhail Klinov announced the stabilization of the situation with forest fires in Siberia.
On August 8, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to allocate about 6 billion rubles to extinguish forest fires in a number of regions.
On August 1, the Ministry for Emergencies called the cause of the spread of fires in Siberia.