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Times and Climate Change
Over 90 wildfires rage across more than 5,000 hectares in
Russia
24.04.2011, 17.46
MOSCOW, April 24 (Itar-Tass) -- More than 90 wildfires have spread
on more than 5,000 hectares in Russia, a source in the Ministry of
Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
“For the past day 225 wildfires were registered on an area of more
than 6,600 hectares, 134 of them were put down. Some 91 wildfires
keep raging on an area of more than 5,100 hectares,” the source
said. Only a third of raging wildfires were localized, the source
noted.
Two major wildfires are raging in Tuva on a total area of more
than 3,000 hectares.
From the start of the fire prone season 1,403 wildfires have
broken out on a total area of about 33,000 hectares in Russia.
“The number of wildfires has doubled this year and their area
increased more than eight times against the same period of the
previous year,” the source said.