Planes and helicopters dropped on wildfires in Yakutia over 1,700 tonnes of water on Saturday. Dozens of thousand hectares of forests are on fire, Itar-Tass quoted the republic's forestry department as saying. Local firefighters get aid from 106 fire paratroopers from Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk and Petrozavodsk. In Yakutsk, citizens wear medical masks to protect themselves from the smoke of wildfires.
