“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.