A total of 5,260 hectares of woodland have been destroyed by fire in Russia's Far East over the past 24 hours, sources from the forestry department of the Far Eastern Federal District told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
They said six out of 18 woodland (...)
Wildfires have swept across 1,592 hectares in Russia's Far East over the past 24 hours, the forestry department of the Far Eastern Federal District told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. Firefighting teams liquidates six of the 37 fires and localized another (...)
Thirteen out of 41 forest fires were put out in the Far East over the past 24 hours, as well as nine more fires were brought under control, an official at the Far Eastern District's Forestry Department told Itar-Tass on Monday.
Specialists point out (...)
A total of 20 out of 68 wildfires have been extinguished in Russia's Far Eastern regions over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the Far Eastern federal district forestry department told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to the spokesman, the fires (...)
Wildfires in Russia's Far East have been raging across 2,470 hectares over the past 24 hours, the forestry department in the Far Eastern federal district told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
Forest protection officers liquidated 16 of the 48 wildfires (...)
Seventy seven wildfires were registered in the Far East over the past 24 hours on an area of 1,508 hectares. Forty nine fires on an area of over 1,256 hectares were extinguished, Itar-Tass quoted the Far Eastern Centre of the Russian Ministry for (...)
Six wildfires are burning on 108 hectares in the Russian Far East, the Far Eastern Forestry Department told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
"There are three wildfires in Yakutia, two taiga fires in the Amur region and one in Kamchatka. There are no wildfires (...)
There are seven forest fires on a total area of 126 ha in the Far East this Friday, the Forestry Department in the Far East Federal District reports.
Three fires are continuing burning in Yakutia, one in the Amur Region, one in the Magadan Region, (...)
Five people were injured in an oil refinery fire in Khabarovsk on Sunday. Four are in heavy condition in a resuscitation unit, Itar-Tass quoted a source at the Russian Emergencies Ministry's Khabarovsk regional department as saying.
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As many as nine wildfires are still raging on an area of 2,128 hectares in Russia's Far East, a spokesman for the local forestry administration told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
"In Yakutia, forest fires are sweeping through an area of 1,596 hectares, (...)
The wildfire zone in the Russian Far East grew by nearly 2,000 hectares over the past day, a source at the district forestry department told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
Eleven wildfires broke out, and ten were put out, including four in Yakutia. Two small (...)
Five wildfires on an area of 579 hectares have been put out in Russia's Far East in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the Far Eastern forestry department told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
“As many as 110 forest rangers are involved in fire fighting (...)
The area of forest fires has enlarged to 977 hectares in the Far East.
There were 18 outbreaks in Yakutia, the Amur Region, the Khabarovsk Territory and Chukotka by Friday morning, the forestry department in the Far East Federal District reported (...)
Only three wildfires remain burning on 624 hectares in Russia's Far East, as Itar-Tass reported.
On Friday morning, 600 ha were afire in the Komsomolsky nature preserve in the Khabarovsk Territory, and there were two fires on 24 ha in Yakutia. (...)
In Russia's Far East there are 13 wildfires, which occupy an area of 7,800 hectares, the Far East Forestry Department said on Sunday.
Big wildfires still continue, and new ones emerged in the Kamchatka and Maritime territories. Over 310 hectares of (...)
In the Far East, 34 out of the 72 wildfires were extinguished during the past day, but 38 fires on a total area of more than 5,200 hectares continued to rage by Saturday morning, the Russian EMERCOM Emergencies Ministry's regional centre (...)
Akhir 17, 1432 / March 22, 2011, SPA -- Specialists continue monitoring the radiation situation in Russia's Far East round the clock. The situation in the region is normal, Itar-Tass quoted the regional centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergency (...)
A powerful cyclone has hit Russia's Far East, bringing snowfalls, gale-force winds and snowdrifts in the Khabarovsk region, Primorye and Sakhalin. The Far Eastern regional centre of the Ministry for Emergency Situations has issued a storm (...)
Four people died in the fire that broke out at four-storey apartment block in Yakutia's settlement of Chersky on Sunday, the main EMERCOM department in Yakutia said.
Some 38 people were evacuated from the house by the firefighters, who arrived at (...)
A criminal case was opened over the crash of an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Interior Ministry Forces in Yakutia, Itar-Tass quoted a source at the republican department of the Prosecutor General's Office Investigation Committee as (...)
A total of 169 patients, including 45 bed patients, were evacuated from a regional hospital in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk where a fire broke out late on Sunday. Nobody was injured, Itar-Tass reported.
The fire in the ground floor was put (...)
A hurricane and thunderstorms in Russia's Khabarovsk Territory on Tuesday evening and night left without electricity two dozen settlements, ruining houses and infrastructure facilities, an official at the local Emergency Situations Ministry told (...)
Rains have helped forest protection services to liquidate on Thursday four forest fires and localize several more conflagrations in the Khabarovsk territory. However, “16 fires at an area of 2,505 hectares remain by Friday morning,” the forestry (...)
The cyclone has brought long-awaited rains in the Khabarovsk territory in the small hours on Thursday. For the first time in the past few days Khabarovsk residents do not stifle from a heavy smoke, Itar-Tass reported.
However, the rains did not put (...)
An oil spot of about two kilometers long and 600 meters wide has been traced in the Amur River on territory of the Amur region, the Khabarovsk territorial department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
The (...)