Thousands of hectares of fields are blazing along the highway in Kuzbass

A large -scale fire along the highway was photographed in the Kemerovo region. Photos and videos appeared in local publics in social networks. According to Cosmomonitoring, more than 10 thousand hectares of fields are burning near the Kemerovo-Novokuznetsk road.

Photos from the fire were published in the Kuzbass Power group on the VKontakte social network. “Great smoke and fires. Dry fields are burning along the Novokuznetsk -Kemerovo highway, ”the report said .

“They just sent: before Novokuznetsk, in front of the former Toyota station, the fields are burning, the smoke is such that the roads are not visible, slowed down only because people fled from the field and waved our hands to stop, otherwise we would have entered, a terrible smoke and a column from cars, terribly 7-10, so terrible ... warn, if someone suddenly, if someone suddenly From acquaintances travels along the highway, ”writes Igor Shemchuk in the social network on April 12.

The video with a fire appeared on April 12 and in the public Prokopyevsk. The record shows that the car is driving along a smoky road, around which, on both sides, fields are burning.

According to the local publication, Sibdepo, the fields fell on the video in the Prokopyevsky district. “We went home from Novokuznetsk. The blazing fields noticed about the best after the village. The grass burned for 2-3 kilometers of the road, for sure, ”the author of the video told the publication.

According to the cosmic monitoring site, dozens of fires on both sides of the route. The total area of ​​fire is more than 10 thousand hectares.

On April 12, the Novosibirsk City Hall also spread a warning about the possibility of forest fires. In the near future, warming is expected to +17.

“The sunbathing occurs, as a rule, in the territories adjacent to horticultural partnerships, residential buildings, the places of accumulation of garbage and areas where the grass is not mowed in a timely manner,” the city administration recalled. - Fire from the fire can very quickly spread to the buildings located nearby and parked cars. This is especially facilitated by the wind, dry and warm weather. The cause of sunbathing (landscape fire) may also be an abandoned smoldering cigarette. ”