Angara region: the content of carbon monoxide in the air exceeded 5 times

In the fraternal area of the atmospheric air sample of June 27, they showed an excess of maximum permissible concentrations of carbon monoxide by 5 times. The city administration confirmed that the cause of air pollution that local residents complain about are forest fires.

The deputy chairman of the industry and transport committee, the head of the environmental protection department of Bratsk, Nikolai Yushkov, announced that at the request of the city administration due to serious smoke, the mobile ecological station would take measurements every day. Due to the smoke, the Department of Education Bratsklimited the walks of the pupils of kindergartens and instructed to strengthen the medical monitoring of the condition of the children. The Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Irkutsk region during the smoke asks for adults not to let children go out into the street and reduce the time of stay outside the premises.

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In the city forests, according to the city press service, there are no fires, and in the Bratsk region, according to the 8th detachment of the federal fire service in the Irkutsk region, there is a large forest fire with an area of 100 hectares near the village of Mamyr. In addition, according to experts, forest fires in neighboring areas in the north of the region-Ust-Ilymsky, Nizhneilimsky and Ust-Kutsky can affect the situation with smoking.

According to the Ministry of Emergencies in the Irkutsk region, a complex fire situation is now observed in the whole region-forests are burning in Zhigalovsky and Kirensky, Taishet and Bodaibinsky, Katang and Kazachinsky-Lensky, Osinsky and Udinsky districts of the Angara region.