“Last week we had the first class of danger, now it has been raised to the third.
There are five of them in total... If last week there were 4-5 fires a day, now there are 15-20,” URA.RU was told in the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Lightning discharges were attributed to the main causes of fires in the department.
In total, over the past day, Russian fire services have extinguished 96 natural fires on an area of 5415 hectares.
Earlier, the head of Rosleskhoz, Ivan Sovetnikov, said that this summer the greatest fire risk is expected in Yakutia, as well as in the regions of the Far East and Siberia.