Siberia and the Far East: the authorities refused to extinguish 43 forest fires

On June 14, in Siberia and the Far East, the regional authorities decided not to extinguish 43 forest fires, their total area is 91.5 thousand hectares. During the day, the area of such fires increased by 26 thousand hectares. All foci are located in remote areas, space monitoring is followed.

According to the Federal Dispatching Service of the Forest Protection, almost half of the fires operate in Yakutia - 40.7 thousand hectares, the rest are in the Khabarovsk (10.9 thousand) and Transbaikal (3 thousand) edges, the Amur (22.4 thousand) and Irkutsk (9.6 thousand hectares) areas. In total - 30 fires.

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According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Forestry, the authorities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory decided not to extinguish 13 fires occupying 4.9 thousand hectares in remote areas. The reason for the refusal that the predicted extinguishing costs will exceed the possible harm from the fire. Foci of fires are controlled by cosmic monitoring. At the same time, in the region on June 14, nine forest fires with a total area of 17.2 hectares continue to extinguish, four foci are localized.

The total area of fires, the extinguishing of which is suspended 91.5 thousand hectares, is 26 thousand more than a day ago, when they occupied a territory of 65.5 thousand hectares.