2024-07-28 13:05:47
According to the authorities, the catastrophic forest and wildfires in Siberia have spread to an area of more than a million hectares in the Yakutia region alone. According to the Ministry of Civil Defense in the capital Yakutsk, there are currently more than 130 individual fires raging in the region. About 2,000 people are working on the ground and in the air to extinguish the fire.
Because of the forest fires, a state of emergency has been in place for weeks in the region in northeastern Russia. In the world’s largest country by area, fires are also wreaking havoc in many other regions. Due to extensive forest and wildfires in the Arctic region there have been huge amounts of smoke in recent weeks. Several cities were engulfed in smoke Air samples were taken; However, no cases of smoke inhalation have been reported yet, he said. The Ministry of Civil Defense said in a statement that 52 towns were struggling with plumes of smoke from the fires. Annual infernoRussia struggles with fires every year, in which a large part of the forest and steppe is destroyed. The European Union’s Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) cites much higher temperatures and less precipitation than usual in the particularly affected region, part of the Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), as reasons for the large increase. Copernicus data show up to seven degrees more there compared to the long-term average (1991 to 2020) and severe drought Russian forest fire fighting unit Awiallessochrana said new natural fires could break out due to dry storm fronts. The flames also spread due to strong winds and lack of rain. Especially in hard-to-reach regions, units often overlook shutdowns for personnel and cost reasons.
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