“There is a need to take a more serious approach to the issue of prevention, prevention and fight against fires on the territory of nature reserves, forest lands, where managers do not properly monitor fire safety requirements or do not take proper measures to extinguish emerging fires, hoping for a chance,” RIA quotes Kurenkov News.
According to him, the Ministry of Emergency Situations plans to discuss this issue with the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Over the past day, Russian fire services extinguished 32 natural fires on an area of 3,194 hectares.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has created all the conditions to prevent forest fires, the responsibility for their prevention lies with the regional authorities.