Experience and techniques in Altai specialists of the MOE, allowing you to be proactive, get noticed and appreciated at the Federal level. About how was organized the preventive and preparatory work, in an interview with “RG” said the head of EMERCOM of Russia in the Altai territory the General-the major of internal service Alexander Makarov.
Alexander winter due to severe snowstorms in the region has happened a force majeure situation. Although serious reflection on your service has not arisen neither from the people nor from the authorities, the problems were probably. What conclusions have you made for the future?
Alexander Makarov: Winter, of course, turned out to be difficult, even given the fact that Siberia is a lot of snow is not a miracle. The backbone of the emergency departments is concentrated in the cities, and the main wave of the snow storm passed through the “South-Western areas of the Salair range.” Having received information about the impending disaster, we have proactively deployed forces. When the storm began to pass where it has become almost impossible, the rescuers got to where required. A serious situation has developed in the Zmeinogorsk region, where all was not through, but our staff already were there. To rescue a woman who was bleeding internally, needed almost a military operation, as the ambulance to get are unable. And these situations enough.
helped close cooperation with the regional Directorate of the interior Ministry and road services. On the basis of GU Ministry of emergency situations worked the interagency coordinating staff, and we had the opportunity to respond quickly to an emergency. For example, during a terrible accident involving a dozen cars near Pavlovsk, where several people were killed. The storm is raging, machine stand, forming a stopper, in the face of growing drifts. But just a couple of hours together, we have restored traffic on the highway. And this is in conditions of very poor visibility.
Yeah, Melo so that in Barnaul on the Pavlovsk path from the Windows of cars was barely visible the first rows of houses.
Alexander Makarov: what lessons for the future, then, I admit, we have not calculated the food in small villages that have long appeared in snow to captivity. This situation was new for us. Problems had to be solved “in time”. Formed convoys with food, medicines and other necessary goods. There was heavy machinery. In Zmeinogorsky district to a village barely cleared the road – two hours later, again all covered with snow. We did not anticipate that the disruption to livelihoods will be long – more than three days. To some locations fought for seven days.
In one village is having problems with water pump broke. And it could not immediately replace the crane it was impossible mouth��out due to the hurricane. We tried to quickly resolve such a situation, and I am very grateful to the residents of the region for their patience and understanding. The elements all pulled together and mobilized. Helped in trouble, even those agencies that are not designed for rescue operations. For example, the border guards assisted the sick woman, took her on the snowmobile and gave the rescuers.
After a very snowy winter, many predicted that the region will drown in the flood waves.
Alexander Makarov: Indeed, weather forecasters give the unfavourable forecasts. In the EMERCOM of Russia in the Altai Republic related to the regions where the flood situation can be very complex. The decision of the Minister of the province has been allocated three kilometres of water-filled dams in case of extreme situations with the river flooding. We have paid special attention to municipalities in the clearance of stormwater, snow removal, the filling of dams. Helped Siberian rescue center. And some of the heads of municipalities initially resisted – they say that everything is fine, but in the end, appreciated the assistance. The city’s residents with their heavy machinery helped to prepare not only for flooding, but for the fire season.
During the first wave of the flood occurred, of course, the local roughness: the water rose in the small rivers like Capsi and Eltsovka, but to serious problems is not reached. Lucky, of course, with the weather, heavy precipitation in the Altai Republic, which could complicate the situation in both regions. Fortunately, in winter the snow on non-frozen soil. The ice on the rivers very quickly came down. And the second wave of floods is almost superimposed on the first and quickly petered out due to low water level in the rivers. A few days nervous residents Loktevsky district and Rubtsovsk – had to increase the discharges of water with Gilevskogo reservoir, and the situation is normalized.
Another scourge of the Altai territory – fires. Spring has been dry, hot and windy, however there were no serious fires. A number of Siberian regions – in particular, Kuzbass, Khakassia, Novosibirsk and Omsk region – suffered from fire.
Alexander Makarov: In our favor, load a number of factors. In the region of about 700 settlements of paragraphs under constant threat of fires, about 200 forest. But we’ve tried to forestall. Preparations began when the snow still not completely gone. Permitted under our control to do a scheduled annealing around the villages. And sometimes had to force the heads of administrations to hurry.
Is space monitoring of thermal spots, and this year we for the first time in several years put the results on a map and analyzed the “gas” zone. They were areas around cities (especially the suburban community), meadows in the floodplain of the Ob river, and Federal highway road and railway line near Slavgorod (site not electrified, and there is a long ascent on which a locomotive running on fuel oil, roll under load far flying sparks).
We analyzed the presence of technology in these areas and has created 24 temporary Federal post round-the-clock surveillance. Of course, I had to spray a little power, but were able to “catch fire”. When compared with previous years, the weather conditions this spring was worse, and more thermal spots, but we eliminated them faster. Before responding to the fire and its extinguishing took an average of two to three hours, now – thirty minutes including the strong spring winds (at wind speed of fifteen meters per second the speed of distribution of fire on the grass reaches five meters per second).
We have created an operational headquarters, which included representatives of the Ministry of interior, Ministry of environment of the Russian Federation, Rosselkhoznadzor. Monitoring of the situation with fires is carried out around the clock. Much help to the municipal authorities.
Additional difficulties in fighting fires created restrictive measures in connection with the pandemic coronavirus. If earlier the peak of fires has had for the may holidays, now is good weather and a two-month regime of isolation of the majority of the population has brought us “shock month” from April 20 to may 20 when we had a special fire-prevention mode. Some days – for example, on 23-24 April – the whole unit almost didn’t return to the part.
We do not divide fires on Federal or departmental. To eliminate a serious fire near the Kolyvan had to pull forces from Barnaul and Rubtsovsk to help forestry to prevent the spread of fire and its transition to the specially protected area. Same – Tal area at station m when the fire was put out jointly by the MOE, the fire train of the Russian Railways and foresters. The most important thing – not to stand aside and to avoid the tragic consequences.
