“By the decree of the head of the republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the emergency regime in regional forests was canceled,” RIA Novosti quoted the press service of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the region.
According to Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources, dry thunderstorms could have caused a fire.
10 airplanes and 10 helicopters of the Ministry of Defense with special equipment were involved in the extinguishing.
On August 21, it was reported that 217 forest fires had been extinguished in Yakutia since the start of the fire hazard season.