Siberia: Life in Smoke

A businessman from Siberian Ust-Kuta Alexei Tupitsin sent NT photos of today's reality

Ust-Kut, a city of 510 km on a core from Irkutsk, stands at the merger of the rivers Lena and Kuta. “Around the city, large areas of the forest have burned out, but they are not allowed there now, the roads are blocked,” writes Alexei. -The river is closed, the ships are immediately behind the village of Verkhne-Markovo, Ust-Kutsky district. People are afraid to go outside, since there is nothing to breathe. Wet rag masks help only a few minutes. Hospitals are crowded, "ambulances" to the clash. No one knows when it will end, and the authorities are stupidly silent. It has never happened: for 35 days without rains and without a pure sky. ” “In total, 1130 hectares of forest are burning around the Ust-Kut, of which only 370 are localized. 180 personnel and 30 units of equipment work on the elimination of fires. Another 40 people are in places of previously localized fires,” says the Ust-Kut 24 Valeria Maksimenko from the Irkutsk Milesokhoz. “The situation with smoke, according to Maksimenko, according to Maksimenko, according to Maksimenko, according The wind exacerbates from the side of Yakutia, where the area of ​​fires are very large. Fires are awarded 4-5 grade. Aviation is not used for extinguishing. ” In winter, Alexei Tupitsin told NT , what is life when the thermometer in Ust-Kuta drops below minus 54 degrees Celsius.