"Currently, there are 30 forest fires in the region on an area of 8,931.1 hectares in Prionezhsky, Muezersky, Pudozhsky, Belomorsky, Sortavalsky, Kalevala, Pryazhinsky, Segezhsky, Suoyarvsky, Kondopozhsky, Medvezhyegorsky districts," the TASS agency quotes.
It is noted that 12 fires on an area of 414.1 hectares have been localized.
Earlier, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Karelia Andrei Karpilovich said that an emergency regime was in force throughout the region due to forest fires.
On July 16, FAN wrote that drones are being used to extinguish a large forest fire in the Perm Territory.