Ude, Jumada II 21, 1432, May 24, 2011, SPA -- Wildfires situation in Siberia has stabilized, the local administration said on Tuesday. Deputy Prime Minister of the Transbaikalia Region Evgeny Vishnyakov thanked paratroopers from Irkutsk, Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk for their assistance in extinguishing the wildfires. "Well organised and timely actions of the groups extinguished the complicated wildfires, which occupied the aviation protected zone of the forests," Itar-Tass quoted press service of the local administration as saying. There are still three wildfires in the Transbaikalia Region, which occupy slightly over 23 hectares. 105 firefighters, 29 vehicles and one plane continue to extinguish the fires, the local branch of Russia's EMERCOM said. In Buryatia, which neighbors the Transbaikalia Region, the number of wildfires is falling, too, though they still occupy 480 hectares. "The fires at 460 hectares are localized," Buryatia's branch of EMERCOM said. "Over 80 firefighters, 17 vehicles and three planes continue working there."
