In June and July the most complex forest fire situation is expected in the Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk region and Yakutia. This forecast was made on the online press conference in tasso, chief of Avialesookhrana Nikolai Krivosheev.
poor prognosis is made based on the analysis of the data of Roshydromet, which recorded a dry winter and abnormally hot spring in some regions of Siberia. In some places the temperature may reach 35 degrees.
Now in Russia the burning of the forest in 27 districts. The total area of fires – 7.6 thousand hectares.
As the head of the Federal forestry Agency Sergey Anoprienko, in 2020 the budget for forest protection activities are allocated more than 3 billion rubles. By these means it is planned to buy 9 thousand special vehicles and various equipment. Procurement last year, according to him, positive impact on the performance of fire fighting. If in 2019 the average forest fire area of 200 hectares, in 2020 this figure dropped to 150 ha. i.e. the fires could do it faster, preventing their proliferation.
the summer fire season ready all the regions, with the exception of the Kurgan region, which reported a limited tender.
Just to extinguish forest fires can be brought up to 190 thousand and 66 thousand cars.
Formed the Federal reserve of 660 paratroopers of Avialesookhrana. Half of them are already fighting forest fires in Transbaikalia and the Amur region.
the Head of the Federal forestry Agency noted a positive trend in the statistics of forest fires in the may holidays. Obviously, insulating antivirus activities helped to keep people from nature. As a result, the number of fires in may is 2 times less than in the same period of 2019 and 4 times less than in the same period in 2018.
the Main source of forest fires – illegal fall grass on agricultural land. Unconscious people do not stop even a lot of penalties. According to the MOE, in the year 2020 were more than 40 thousand burning grass. Brought to administrative responsibility 550 local governments, 2,2 thousand officials, 305 legal entities and 17.5 thousand people.
the Head of the Federal forestry Agency has said it supports the tightening of administrative and criminal liability for arsonists.
