"On the territory of Yakutia, there are 75 wildfires on a total area of 257,056 thousand hectares," Interfax quotes the message.
It is noted that a difficult situation persists in the village of Svatay, Srednekolymsky district, which in the past few days was shrouded in smoke due to forest fires.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia instructed to strengthen supervision over the implementation of laws in the field of fire safety in forests.
On July 28, URA.RU reported that the smoke from forest fires reached Chelyabinsk. There was a smell of burning in the city.