“On the territory of the Siberian Federal District, medium, high, sometimes extreme fire hazard classes in forests are forecasted in the Altai and Krasnoyarsk Territories, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk Regions according to weather conditions,” TASS reports.
It is noted that medium, high, sometimes extreme fire hazard classes in forests are forecasted in the Murmansk region according to weather conditions.
Also, a high, sometimes extreme fire hazard class is predicted these days in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, in the republics of Sakha (Yakutia) and Buryatia, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and Zabaykalsky Krais.
Earlier, rescuers warned of an emergency fire hazard in the Crimea.
According to the Republican Administration for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, we are talking about the period from August 15 to 17.