Another 50 air firefighters of the Irkutsk Aviation Forestry Service joined to extinguish forest fires in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

This was reported on the website of the Federal Forestry Agency.

“Today at 15:00 Moscow time, a plane landed at the Nyagan airport, delivering 50 firefighters from the Irkutsk Aviation Forest Protection Service to fight fires in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.

Earlier, 349 more paratroopers and paratroopers of the federal aviation forest protection and air forest protection of seven regions of the Ural and Siberian federal districts were deployed to the region to fight the fire, ”the message says.

Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug announced that the area of ​​forest fires in the region had reached 84,000 hectares.

On August 8, URA.RU reported that a state of emergency was declared in the Nadymsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug due to wildfires.