“Russian colleagues responded to our request and sent a special Mi-8 helicopter, it is equipped with devices for discharging water and creating foam strips in the fight against forest fires. The crew consists of five people. Tomorrow at 7:00 we will begin to extinguish the fire, ”Lev Kvitsiniy, Minister for Emergency Situations of Abkhazia, quoted Interfax as saying.
He noted that in the undergrowth there is a fire that reaches one hundred hectares.
According to him, warm and dry weather is in Abkhazia, there is a possibility of the spread of fire.
Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia will work out joint proposals to increase the efficiency of aviation conservation, the corresponding order was given by the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after the request of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin.