Around 30 wildfires raging in Far East forests
VLADIVOSTOK. April 29 (Interfax) - In the past 24 hours experts extinguished 24 wildfires raging at over 6,000 hectares, the Far East Federal District forestry department press office said in a statement on Tuesday.
As of early Tuesday, 28 wildfires continue to rage in the Far East - 12 of them are in the Primorye territory, ten in the Amur region, and six in the Khabarovsk territory, the document said.
Fires covered almost 3,600 hectares in the Amur region and 2,300 hectares in the Primorye territory and most forces and means were concentrated in these areas.
A total of 979 people, 159 units of equipment, 11 aircraft, including seven helicopters, were involved in extinguishing fires in the Far East.
"According to the information of the executive authorities in the Far East Federal District authorized in the forestry sector, since the fire season of 2014 began, 1,323 wildfires at around 177,000 hectares emerged in the protected territories of the region, mostly non-forest ones," the statement said.
Eighty wildfires on an area of approximately 3,900 hectares registered in the region during the same period of 2013.