“At 00:00 Moscow time on 08.19.2019, there were 56 forest fires on the territory of Russia on an area of 85 thousand 396 hectares, which were used to actively extinguish”, RIA Novosti quotes the message of the Federal Aviation Protection Agency.
A day earlier, the agency reported 75 forest fires on an area of 104 thousand 341 ha.
The greatest danger remains in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where 26 fires were recorded on an area of 54.9 thousand ha.
Employees of the FBI Avialesohrana put out on August 18 in Russia 53 forest fires on an area of 58 thousand 809 ha.