“It was possible to prevent the spread of fire to the settlements of the Ketovsky, Belozersky, Kargapolsky and Vargashinsky districts, as well as to numerous microdistricts of the city of Kurgan,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of the agency interlocutor.
350 people and more than 100 pieces of equipment were involved in the elimination of the consequences of the fire.
Earlier it became known about the death of a woman during a natural fire in the village of Morevskoye, Kurgan region.
Traffic on the Yekaterinburg-Shadrinsk-Kurgan highway towards the Sverdlovsk region was stopped due to a natural fire.
The region has declared a state of emergency.