MOSCOW, May 9. The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Alexander Kurenkov expressed the opinion that today it will be possible to cope with natural fires in the Kurgan region.
«I think that today we will cope with this,» Kurenkov said on the air of the Rossiya-1 TV channel. He noted that «a ground group is working there, there are volunteers», recalled that aviation is also involved.
As for the forestries and Rosleskhoz, according to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, «one cannot say that they are not working.» «Everyone is working, everyone is fighting,» he stressed.
On Monday, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation flew with a task force to the Kurgan region, where an emergency regime was introduced due to natural fires. The department announced the day before that the threat to settlements from wildfires in the region was removed, more than 10 thousand residential buildings in six settlements were protected from fire.
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