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 operations in the Amur region, the republic of Yakutia, and in Chukotka. The current fire area is 339.6 hectares,” the spokesman said. The only fire that threatened the settlement of Torom in the Khabarovsk territory, has finally been extinguished. Fire alert regimen was imposed in 26 municipalities in Yakutia, the Khabarovsk and Primorsky territories, in the Amur region, the Kamchatka and Chukotka autonomous areas.
