Some 90% of the territory of a private nature park for rare species of birds was destroyed in a wildfire early on Sunday, the park’s chief said. The head of the Muravyovsky Park, Sergei Smirensky, said the wildfire was fanned by strong winds. “We struggled to prevent the fire from spreading to bird enclosures. Good [...]
Tag: Wildfire
October 9, 2011
June 28, 2011
Firefighters put out half of 12 forest fires in Russia’s Far East in past 24 hours
Firefighters and rescuers in Russia’s Far East extinguished half of 12 forest fires registered over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Tuesday. “As of 8:00 local time on Tuesday [21:00 GMT Monday] six forest fires continue raging in the Far East covering an area of 7.42 hectares,” the [...]
June 26, 2011
Firefighters put out 3 forest fires in Russia’s Far East in past 24 hours
Firefighters and rescuers in Russia’s Far East extinguished three forest fires over the past 24 hours and continue battling 11 more forest fires, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance registered a total of 14 forest fires in the last 24 hours. Three of them covering an [...]
June 21, 2011
Firefighters put out 8 forest fires in Russia’s Far East over past 24 hours
Firefighters and rescuers in Russia’s Far East extinguished eight forest fires over the past 24 hours and continue battling 10 more forest fires, a spokesman for the regional emergencies ministry said on Tuesday. “A total of 18 forest fires were registered in the past 24 hours; eight of them were extinguished and four more localized,” [...]
June 19, 2011
Nine forest fires extinguished in Russia’s Far East over past 24 hours
Firefighters and rescuers in Russia’s Far East extinguished nine forest fires over the past 24 hours and continue battling 20 more forest fires, the regional emergencies ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance registered a total of 29 forest fires in the past 24 hours; nine of them were extinguished and nine more [...]
June 19, 2011
Siberian forest fire area shrinks 25 pct over past 24 hours
The area affected by forest fires in Siberia has decreased by 25 percent in the last twenty-four hours to 5,400 hectares, the Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance has registered a total of 122 forest fires on an area of 5,420 hectares in Siberia, of which 42 wildfires have been localized [...]
June 16, 2011
June 12, 2011
Main news of June 12
RUSSIA * Chief of the municipal tax office of the North Caucasus city of Khasavyurt Yakub Nutsalov was shot dead near his home on Sunday, police spokesman said. * About 150 people gathered on Moscow’s downtown Teatralnaya Square in a bid to stage an unsanctioned Day of Wrath rally, 28 of them have been detained, [...]
June 12, 2011
Wildfires more rampant in Russia in 2011, spread over east
Russia reported 186 wildfires burning in forests and peat bogs on Sunday, covering an area more than three times the size of that for the same period last year. “Overall, more than 12,100 wildfires have emerged in Russia since the beginning of the fire-hazardous season of 2011 on a total area of about 752,500 hectares [...]
June 12, 2011
Wildfires in Russia: Summer 2011
Russia reported 186 wildfires burning in forests and peat bogs on Sunday, covering an area more than three times the size of that for the same period last year.
June 10, 2011
Greenpeace Says Wildfires Will Be Worse This Year
A devastating wave of wildfires across Russia could ravage millions of hectares of forests and cause worse damage than last year’s catastrophic blazes, environmentalists and officials said Thursday. “We’re burning, burning badly,” said Greenpeace’s forestry expert Alexei Yaroshenko. “This year’s situation is already much worse than last year’s.” In 2010, an unprecedented heat wave triggered fires that killed 55 people, destroyed thousands [...]
June 7, 2011
Main news of June 7
WORLD * Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged not to surrender despite deadly NATO air raids on his compound in Tripoli and other military targets * Russia can develop missile systems capable of penetrating any missile defense deployed by NATO, Russia’s envoy to the alliance Dmitry Rogozin said * Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh suffered burns [...]
June 5, 2011
May 30, 2011
Weather Forecasters Warn of a Hot Summer
The federal weather bureau said the upcoming summer, while hot, will not match last year’s scorching records — even as it prepared to receive a shipment of 30 air conditioning units for its Moscow headquarters. “The weather last summer was a very rare event, and we are not expecting it to happen again,” deputy head Gennady Yeliseyev said Friday. Yeliseyev said by phone that summer temperatures [...]