More than 1800 houses were saved from forest fires in the Chelyabinsk region

“Despite the very difficult situation, thanks to the coordinated actions of firefighters, forestry services, volunteers in seven settlements, over 1800 houses were protected from fire.

72 buildings burned down, "RIA Novosti quotes him.

Denisov said this at an operational meeting at the site of the emergency.

At the same time, Yuri Burenko, head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Chelyabinsk Region, stressed that firefighters and representatives of other services did their best in the current difficult situation.

Earlier, the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Alexei Teksler, told Russian President Vladimir Putin by telephone about the situation around wildfires in the region.