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Putin joked about fires before the injured
In Sochi, President Vladimir Putin met with residents of the Irkutsk region, who suffered from flood. To the words of the inhabitants that they do not want to return to the flooded Tulun and they think about moving to Krasnoyarsk, the head of state reminded that the forest was on fire. The video was published by the Kremlin press service.
Putin asked the residents about their rest and talked about the restoration of destroyed houses and the construction of new ones. He added that the second wave of the flood could prevent the housing on time, but promised that "in any case everything would be built."
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed Facebook“It’s scary to return there, all the more we left - it was so, and now the second wave is still, and there, probably, everything is completely scary,” said one of the participants in the meeting. “Thoughts already appear to move to another city, to Krasnoyarsk, for example,” another participant said.
“There are fires,” Putin grinned. “Forests are burning ... Moreover, fires, unfortunately, are in such areas that are removed from settlements. There can not be picked by some areas for fires on the plane.”
According to the aircraft protection, the work on extinguishing in the Krasnoyarsk Territory 69 fires on an area passed by fire, 46.8 thousand hectares continue. However, the main part of the fires is located in Evenkia, in the so -called control zone, where it was decided not to extinguish the foci. According to regional officials, 80 centers with an area of 844 thousand hectares are burning "in extremely distant and inaccessible territories, where there are practically no settlements and valuable forests."
- By the beginning of August, the Siberian Square in Siberia reached almost three million hectares. Only after the burning forest area increased three times in a month-from one million hectares, officials decided to extinguish “closed foci in the control zone”, the extinguishing of which was previously recognized as ineffective due to large costs.
- Roscosmos published photos that show how fires from orbit look like. Smoke from fires, according to NASA, reached Alaska and Canada.