Fires covered settlements in Transbaikalia

The steppe Palas switched to settlements in the Trans -Baikal Territory. More than 70 residential buildings have been destroyed. At least five victims are reported. (Updated: according to April 20, the number of victims increased to 23).

Natural fires switched to settlements in Transbaikalia on April 19. In the Balesky district, the village of Unda covered fire, at least eight houses were injured, Taiga.info reported .

“In the village of Ust-Imalka of the Ononsky district there were 66 residential buildings. According to the latest data, the fires that came from the steppes destroyed at least 34 houses, firefighters left the village to the village, but get there at least 6 hours. The lack of mobile communications complicates the situation, ”Chita.ru reports .

The publication publishes photographs of incidents from different regions of the region in a telegram.

Also, fires were awarded in the area of ​​Krasnokamensk and the village of Tokchin, where the Chaban parking lots burned down and cattle died.

“A strong wind operating in Transbaikalia can complicate the situation with fires and lead to other negative consequences,” said the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in Transbaikalia. “To prevent an emergency for the forces of rescue services, they are in full combat readiness.”

“[Acting Governor] Transbaikalia Alexander Osipov instructed the acting Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the region Evgeny Kazachenko to organize work to assist the population, whose property was injured as a result of fires,” the Taiga.info told the press service. - Those who were left without housing will be placed in institutions of the social sphere. On behalf of the Olovyanninsky and Baleysky districts, on behalf of the head of the region, the acting deputy chairman of the Government of the region Andrei Gurulev and the head of the Department of Civil Defense and Fire Safety Fyodor Kurguskin left for the adoption of emergency measures and assisting the population.

In Instagram, a video of a large fire near the village of Ononskoye - the administrative center of the Ononsky district of Transbaikalia was also published .

According to the space monitoring of fires on April 19, the South of Transbaikalia is covered by natural fires.

UPD (20:00) According to TASS, in the village of Unda, the Balesky district, which Taga.info spoke about at the beginning of the text, about 90 people were left without shelter. They are located in a local culture house.

Residents of the village of Chindant of the Borzinsky district also publish a video about fires surrounded by the settlement. (The video contains non -normative vocabulary).

“A request to everyone who can help !!! Chindant is on! Help in evacuation! Hind at least the children! ”, The community of our Borzya VKontakte community says .

UPD (20:20) Recall that in 2015, when natural fires spread to housing in Khakassia and Transbaikalia, more than 40 people died. Fire destroyed thousands of residential buildings.

In April 2019, a serious landscape fire was already marked in Transbaikalia. The steppe fell to one of the Chaban parking lots, where about 800 square meters were destroyed by fire. m. buildings, 40 tons of hay, as well as 118 cattle. The shepherd, who tried to save the herd, received burns of 40% of the body. SK started a criminal case.

UPD (20:24) users of social networks published another video of fires in Transbaikalia. This time the track is completely smoke.

And another video from the inhabitants of the region.

UPD (21:00) of the Ministry of Emergencies in Transbaikalia published the first official comment during fires.

“As a result of the transition of a natural fire to a settlement in the village of Ust-Imalka, the Ononsky district burned more than 30 residential buildings. In total, there are 63 houses in the village, of which 41 are abandoned. 53 people live in the village (there are no children), all of them are evacuated by buses to the village of Krasnoye-Imalka and are located at a temporary accommodation point located in the House of Culture of the village. People are comprehensive assistance, including psychological, ”the report said.

According to preliminary information, there are no victims and victims.

An emergency regime is introduced on the territory of the Trans -Baikal Territory.

UPD (21:10) Two people were injured during fires.

“One person suffered during a steppe fire in the Olovyanninsky district, he was hospitalized in the Borzin Central District Hospital (Central District Hospital). Another person suffered when extinguishing a forest fire in the Aginsky district, he was taken to the Aginsky Central District Hospital, ”the TASS agency was told in the press service of the regional Ministry of Health.

UPD (21:20) “The prosecutor's office of the Trans -Baikal Territory organized checks in connection with information about the fires of settlements in several areas,” said Elena Dutova, a representative of the regional prosecutor's office.

The prosecutors of the districts where fires occurred personally control the situation on the ground, the department said. “They were instructed to establish the number of victims of citizens, the number of destroyed (damaged) houses and other damage caused, to check the completeness and timeliness of measures taken by authorized bodies to evacuate and allocation of citizens, and the provision of their necessary assistance,” the department said.

UPD (21:25) “On April 19, 2019, data appeared in the media that in the Balesky and Ononsky districts of the Trans -Baikal Territory, residential buildings were destroyed as a result of the transition of landscape fires to settlements,” the RF IC said in the region. “On this fact, the head of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Trans -Baikal Territory Yuri Rusanov appointed pre -investigation checks.”

As a result of fires, seven houses in the village of Unda were destroyed in the Balesky district, as well as two houses in the city of Bale, in the Ononsky district, 34 residential buildings burned down in the ONE, the UK said. Earlier, at the Emergencies Ministry of Taiga.info they told at least about eight burned houses in Und.

UPD (21:30) The number of victims of natural fires increased from two to five people, the press secretary of the regional Ministry of Health Ingolaev told reporters.

“Three more people were injured as a result of natural fires,” TASS quoted the representative of the Ministry of Health.

UPD (21:45) “In the Trans-Baikal Territory, assistance was organized to victims of fires arising in settlements in some areas,” the press service of the regional government told Taiga.info. -In particular, in the Ononsky district, as a result of a fire in the village of Ust-Imalka, dozens of people were left without housing. Now they are posted at a school in the village of Krasnaya Imalka. A difficult situation in the Balesky district, there people are placed in the sanatorium of Urguchan.

UPD (21:50) and another video from eyewitnesses. This time from the village of Tin.

UPD (22:00) According to the specified data of the Ministry of Emergencies, 71 houses and 21 residential buildings burned in the region. 240 people were left without shelter, including 25 children, reports Chita.ru.

UPD (22:20) According to Interfax, eight settlements suffered from fire.

UPD (22:50) of the Ministry of Social Protection of the region announced the opening of the methods of humanitarian aid points a hundred of fires victims.

“Those who wish to provide financial assistance can transfer funds to the fund’s account marked“ Assistance to the victims of the fire ”,” the website of the Ministry, which indicates the details.

UPD (April 20 10:00) The number of victims increased to 23. more than 100 buildings were destroyed, almost 300 people lost property.