"There are now five hotbeds of natural fires in the region, the area of active combustion, as the governor said, is about 20 hectares," RIA Novosti quotes Denisov.
He added that "the situation is under control, almost all the outbreaks are localized."
Earlier, the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Alexei Teksler, told Russian President Vladimir Putin by telephone about the situation around wildfires in the region.