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 […]