VLADIVOSTOK, June 13. /TASS/. The total area of forest fires in Russia over the past day has increased up to 7,400 hectares, or by almost 25%, the press service of the Federal Aerial Forest Protection Service. Over the past day, fires on 477 hectares have been extinguished, the service added. On Sunday morning, there were 62 forest fires on an area of 6,072 hectares.
"Over the past day on June 12, 2022, 26 forest fires were extinguished in Russia on an area of 477 hectares. At 00:00 Moscow time on June 13, 2022, there were 78 forest fires on the territory of the Russian Federation on an area of 7,432 hectares, on which intensive fire-fighting was carried out," the statement said.
The biggest wildfires were reported in Yakutia, where their area, including localized ones, is 4,747 hectares. In the Amur region, 1,305 hectares of forest are covered by fires. Fires with an area of less than 1,000 hectares are observed in the Trans-Baikal, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and Altai territories, Irkutsk, Tomsk and Sakhalin regions, in the republics of Tyva, Altai, Khakassia, Karelia, as well as in the Chukotka Autonomous District.
The firefighting effort involves 1,917 people, 274 pieces of equipment, 104 monitoring aircraft and another 34 fire-fighting aircraft. The fire season has been declared in 81 Russian regions. The state of emergency was declared one municipal district of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a special fire protection regime has been introduced in 38 regions.