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Fiery versts
How the regions burn out
** Konstantin Baranovsky
Nizhny Novgorod: Gorky smoke of the Fatherland **
Anomalous heat covered the Nizhny Novgorod region at the end of June. At first it seemed to everyone that two or three days of heat for +30 and everything would return to their circles. Then, somehow, the grains in the south of the region were quietly dried up, slowly began to introduce an emergency in distant areas ... Now the fire was covered by nearly 100 thousand hectares of forest lands, of which the fifth was in the Pryksa district. 36 residents of the region were already killed in the fire, of which seven are children. More than 1,200 people were evacuated, another 1000 are mobilized to fight fire. 100 fire paratroopers from Siberia and Altai arrived in the area. Army units, heavy equipment are also pulled here. While the fire manages to hold the proxy on the border of the urban territory. It was in Proksa that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to observe the progress of the rescue operation. According to eyewitnesses, the head of the government was extremely surprised by the number of ash, in which the legs drowned almost in ankle.
They say: the population and soldiers mobilized by the government were thrown to extinguish fires with virtually no food and water. Nizhny Novgorod rushed the cry on the Internet forums and carry food and drinking bought on personal cars bought on donations.
The alarming situation, according to Governor Valery Shantsev, is observed in Navashino, Kulebaki, Sarov. In addition, peat bores are burning in Bor (the city-satellite city of Nizhny Novgorod) and the fields in the Lukoyanovsky district. Above the Sarov, which is in federal subordination, under the “wing” of Rosatom, 4 aircraft and 2 helicopters are constantly patrolled. Two fire trains were sent here, 500 military personnel were transferred.
Fire is restrained, including due to sorties on the foci of fire specially equipped IL-76 and Be-200. According to the main military expert of the Russian Emergencies Emergencies, Colonel Paul Paul, the situation is under control. All objects of the nuclear center operate as usual.
Having come to the rescue in the village of Citizens are amazed at the locals: “In the Lyskovsky district, men are swearing and scratching backs, but do nothing. Grannies dig in the gardens of the icon of the Virgin face to the fire and hide through the cellars and underlies. Only we, summer residents ... in one village of the townspeople, who had cottages there, filled the muzzle of the tractor driver, after which he deigned to frighten a protective strip around the village. We will leave, apartments in Nizhny, and how rustic ones? But they themselves do not care! " - says the financier Julia. The fire was drawn to the outskirts of Nizhny Novgorod. The city is immersed in a smoky could. It is so thick that the barge walking along the Volga rammed a pontoon crossing connecting Nizhny Novgorod and Bor. There were no casualties, but the bridge will be repaired only after a month and a half.
The authorities are already calculating losses: the losses of the agro -industrial complex from drought are estimated at 1.5 billion rubles, damage to the forest fund - 2.8 billion rubles, a deficit of the regional budget - 100 million. There is data on mass death of bears, moose, and small animals.
Konstantin Novikov Ryazan: training grounds in the Ryazan Ryazan Ring Road , ”a local resident Roman Sergeyev told The New Times. - At a distance of 10 meters, nothing is visible. You go - buildings from smoke are protruding. At the entrance, George the victorious is beautifully loosening from pinkish clubs ... Almost the rider of the apocalypse. " Around Ryazan, a week burns: according to the cards, the front of the fire is gradually moving to the east. If you believe the eyewitnesses, it burns in all directions.
The main problem is that many strategically important objects are concentrated here: several military units, a landing school, an airfield, military warehouses with ammunition. If the fire spreads to them, then the consequences can be catastrophic. The press service of the New Times, the press service of the Ryazan warehouses reliably trenches and the fire did not threaten them. But after fires at the bases of the Navy and Airborne Forces near Moscow, it is hard to believe in it.
Irina Glebovna Sosenkova is the mistress of the cottage in the village of Villages in the Ryazan region. She says: last Saturday at night they were taken ashore Oka a kilometer from the village, and in the meantime, bombs were thrown into the burning forest. Obviously, the evacuation was needed to secure, if by mistake the gunner the shell falls into the village. It seems that at least on one side the fire was “critically close”.
Anton Zdobnov Togliatti: the forest was burning, and the men did not know the inhabitants of Togliatti say that this was what the consequences of a nuclear disaster imagined. “Honestly, it was not just scary, but very scary,” admits a resident of Portposelka Oleg. - The fact that the cottages and the whole portposel survived - a pure accident! The fire was 10-15 meters from my house, a couple of minutes before it would spread, the wind changed and took the fire into the forest. ” The forests lit up here all the dry July, but for some reason this did not make a particular impression on the local authorities. On the afternoon of July 30, a grandiose “riding” fire in a leshoz began between the two largest areas of Togliatti and the four -thousand -thousand -tied portposelcom located between them, that is, in fact in the middle of the city. Soon the streets began to sprinkle ash.
The city leadership did not wake up immediately: according to rumors, the mayor of Anatoly Pushkov was fishing when the fire was raging near elite cottages in the Green Zone. At night, 550 people were urgently taken out from the dispensary and children's camps located in the city. The Sanatorium "Lesnoy", according to eyewitnesses, burned out to the ground. “Fire calculations rushed between the centers, but the scale was such that their strength was not enough for one tenth,” says Artem Yakovlev, activist of the local environmental movement. “We did what we could: we took water from someone’s steep pool and watered the walls and roofs of houses.” Local environmentalists are sure that such deplorable consequences were really avoided, if not for the negligence of officials. “At the beginning of summer, we told the authorities that we must introduce restrictions on visiting forests. But they are all to Feni! - One of the Togliatti ecologists is perplexed. -Already in the 20s it was clear that strong fires could not be avoided. And by the time they began, the governor is on vacation in Italy, the head of the city is fishing, and the Minister of Nature Management of the Samara Region Azarov is busy with the mayors of Samara - he does not give a damn! ”
About 1000 hectares of the forest have already burned out. And this is not the limit: new foci appear every day, the city stands in dense smoke. AvtoVAZ announced the forced holidays until August 8 - in connection with an abnormal heat. Representatives of the trade unions claim that this decision was made only after several workers died right in the workshops where the temperature exceeded 55oc. “The feeling that I'm in hell! - A resident of the city Elena shares the impressions of the last weeks. - Yesterday I saw how a person lost consciousness right in the minibus and was pumped out ... "
Yan Gordeev Tatarstan: Peasants are urge to stock up on straw on August 2 Kazan tightened sweet yellow smoke: in the nearby rural areas, peat bogs caught fire. On August 4, the news came from the Aznakaevsky district of the republic that 10 hectares of dry fields are burning there. In other areas, the situation is no better. 84 Forest fires - 180 hectares are covered by fire - this is a multiple more than happened in the republic in past years. While the Ministry of Emergencies of Tatarstan confidently reports that the “situation is under control”: in any case, the fire from the fields and forests has not yet destroyed the villages and has not killed people. However, the confidence of the Tatarstan rescuers ends exactly on the administrative borders of the republic. In neighboring regions, fires annoy more: in Udmurtia, Mari El and Chuvashia are burning forests - the smoke from the fires has already “swam” to Kazan, which is already pulled from peat bogs.
But a real horror for Tatarstan was a catastrophic crop failure. If the republic in past years reaped in its fields 5-6 million tons of grain, it will not collect a third into this harvest. They have not seen such a drought in Tatarstan since the time of the Volga hunger - almost a hundred years. Four fifths of all crops burned in under the sun, wintering in half the fields dried up, two -thirds of potato harvest were killed, and sugar beets died. The peasants have nothing to feed their livestock: the Ministry of Agriculture calls for rural residents to stock up on straw, as in the war, and look for "vestous food" for animals in the forests. In some areas, even drinking water is not enough - the reservoirs are rapidly shallow.
The authorities of Tatarstan initially tried to remain calm, they say that this year’s crop failure will be compensated by the grains of past years. However, very soon it turned out that reserves exist only on paper. The heads of regional administrations have been engaged in postscripts traditional since the Soviet-collar times. The Ministry of Agriculture makes oath promises to maintain invariable prices for bread before the end of the year, but the Tatarstan people are already buying flour, sunflower oil, pasta, cereals, granulated sugar. In order not to warm the panic, officials were forbidden to use the phrase “Raising price”, in government reports they are now writing about “Pricing to the side”. The total damage from the drought is estimated at 2.5 billion rubles.