“The Russian Emergencies Ministry is building up its forces in the Voronezh region, two aircraft - IL-76 and Be-200, as well as a joint fire brigade - 134 people and 32 units were sent to the region.
equipment, of which 26 fire tankers from 6 subjects of the Central Federal District (Kaluga, Lipetsk, Oryol, Ryazan, Tambov and Tula regions) ", - quotes TASS as saying Khrenov.
According to a representative of the department, at the moment Voronezh firefighters are fighting more than 40 forest and landscape fires.
It is clarified that the largest foci were recorded in the Pavlovsky district on an area of 35 hectares, where 50 buildings were destroyed by fire, and in the village of Nizhniy Ikorets, Liskinsky district, where a landscape fire is operating on an area of 30 hectares.
Earlier, in the Voronezh region, on the territory of two settlements, an emergency regime was introduced due to a fire.