GORKI, July 30. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expects proposals for building up an Emergencies Ministry group in the regions with a difficult fire situation as it is necessary to prevent the spread of the fire to the borders of communities.
"Proposals should be prepared - the Emergencies Ministry already prepared them - and present them to the government in order to reinforce the group and help as possible the regions that are experiencing the most difficult situation. It is just, and it should be done," the prime minister said at a session with the deputy prime ministers to which Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev was also invited.
Medvedev highlighted that "there is no direct threat to the people’s security and lives yet but the forecast is complicated." "It is necessary to prevent the spread of the fire to the borders of communities," he noted.
The prime minister named the 2010 forest fires as an example "when the whole country was on fire, the situation was very difficult, and it had to be addressed in almost every region, both in the European part of the Russian Federation, where a great number of people live, and in Siberia and the Far East, of course." So, the prime minister said that "all preventive measures should be taken so that this situation did not repeat."
He promised to get back to the issue of the fire situation soon.