“For a week, from May 9 to May 15, 2022, forest firefighters extinguished 1,139 forest fires in 42 regions of Russia,” the ministry said in a statement.
It is noted that the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Tyumen Regions, Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories became the leaders in the number of extinguished fires.
“As of May 16 (00:00 Moscow time), 105 forest fires are being eliminated in 17 regions.
The fight against fire in the forests are: 5987 people, 1104 units.
special equipment and 115 aircraft and helicopters," the statement said.
It is clarified that the causes of forest fires are the careless handling of fire by the local population, agricultural burning of grass prohibited by law, and man-made factors.
Earlier it was reported that more than 9 thousand hectares of forest burned down in the forestry of the Kavalerovsky district of Primorye in a week.
Authorities suspect "black lumberjacks" of deliberate arson.
On May 11, the FAN reported that a criminal case was opened in the Irkutsk region on the fact of the death of a tractor driver during a forest fire.