"Huge words of gratitude to the entire ground group, both the federal component of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and the volunteers," TASS quoted him as saying in an interview with the program "Vesti. Duty unit" on the TV channel "Russia 24".
Earlier, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratiev, said that rescue workers had completely eliminated a forest fire that broke out on the slope of the Markotkh ridge in Gelendzhik.
Prior to this, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia published a video of extinguishing the largest fire in Gelendzhik with the help of aviation.