Forest fire zone grows by almost seven times in Siberia over weekend
NOVOSIBIRSK. Sept 10 (Interfax) - Five forest fires had been raging in Siberia as of Monday morning, the Siberian Federal District Forestry Department said.
The fires are 62 hectares in size; the largest of them (44 hectares) in the Verkhneketsky district of the Tomsk region has been confined. There are also fires in the Barguzinsky district of Buryatia, the Parabelsky district of the Tomsk region and the Krasnoyarsk territory.
Fires were burning on nine hectares in Siberia on Friday. The fire zone grew 6.9 times by Monday morning.
Forest guards had put out 12 forest fires on 22 hectares by Monday.
One hundred and twenty-seven people, 39 fire trucks and two aircraft extinguished the fires.
"There is no threat to residential areas or economic sites," the department said.
