“A regional emergency regime was introduced in the forests located within the borders of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug today, July 14,” Interfax-Ural quotes a message from the regional department of public and external relations.
It is clarified that the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug government has decided to allocate 51.9 million rubles from the reserve fund to the regional department of subsoil use and natural resources to pay for the rental of helicopters to transfer forces and extinguish forest fires.
Earlier, Russian forest fire services eliminated over 70 forest fires over an area of over 10 thousand hectares during the day.