Fishermen during winter fishingMAGADAN, Jan 15, Lyudmila Shcherbakova. Volunteers and firefighters of the Olsk District Kolyma dragged eight fishermen ashore, who found themselves on a torn off drifting ice floe near the village of Balagannoye, Pavel Klochkov, head of the search and rescue team of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the region, told RIA Novosti. Earlier, he said that eight fishermen and two cars were drifting on an ice floe near the village of Balagannoye in the Olsky district of the Magadan region, the wind carries them to the open sea. «Rescue groups from Magadan moved to the place where eight fishermen were drifting. But it is more than 100 kilometers from the city. So local residents intervened in the situation. Volunteers and firefighters managed to pull the ice floe to on the shore, all the fishermen were saved. As for the two cars, they will probably try to pull them ashore,» Klochkov said. .jpg» />The Ministry of Emergency Situations will assess the thickness of ice on reservoirs using drones
