"According to the regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day, on August 24, 39 forest fires were liquidated in Russia on an area of 417 hectares," RIA Novosti is quoted as saying.
It is specified that by 00:00 on Tuesday, August 25, 82 forest fires were active in Russia, they were actively extinguished.
On August 20, the governor of the Tomsk region, Sergei Zhvachkin, signed an order to cancel the emergency situation in the forests of a regional nature in the region.