The alarming situation is reported in Russia. The area of forest fires in Nizhny Novgorod Region has increased by 410 hectares a day and is now exceeding 3,000 hectares. About 150 firemen and 55 units of machinery are working on the site. The scale of the fire in the Ryazan Region is 500 hectares. The situation in the forests of Yakutia is much more dramatic. A dozen fires on the area of 73,000 hectares were recorded there.












