"According to information from regional forestry dispatch services, over the past day on October 17, 2021, 21 forest fires have been extinguished in Russia by forest fire forces on an area of ​​1,446 hectares," RIA Novosti reports from the avialesokhrana.

By midnight on October 18, there were 29 forest fires in Russia on an area of ​​493 hectares. 

Earlier it was reported that a fire in the Sverdlovsk region killed four people.