“According to the regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day (July 15), 112 forest fires in an area of 3,326 hectares have been eliminated in Russia,” the agency said.
By the end of the day, 197 forest fires were operating in Russia on an area of more than 43 thousand ha, which were actively extinguished.
Earlier it was reported that in the forests of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug an emergency regime due to fires was introduced.