0.9 hectares of forest are burning under Vyborg

In the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region, a kilometer from the village at the Oyayarvi railway station, a forest on an area of ​​0.9 hectares is on fire. This was reported by 47news with reference to the northwest forestry.

According to eyewitnesses, nearby villages were covered with smoke - for example, Dymovo. In social networks they published a picture: this is how the fire looks from a height.

25 people were attracted to extinguishing. The reasons for the fire are not specified.

In 2008, the company of Petersburgers, fond of tourism, created the Society of Volunteer Firefighters . Now about a hundred volunteers join them every summer who live in a specially equipped fire camp on Ladoga and protect skewers from fire. "Paper" spoke with one of the participants in the movement.