NOVOSIBIRSK, May 10. Residents of the small village of Mariinka in the Novosibirsk Region had to be temporarily evacuated on Wednesday night due to the threat of a landscape fire, the fire was extinguished by morning , said the head of the GUMCHS for the region, Viktor Orlov.
At an operational meeting in the regional government on Wednesday, the head of the GUMCHS noted that in general, a tense situation with landscape fires is developing in the Novosibirsk region. Over the past week, a total of 1,155 fires have been eliminated, of which 996 are burning dry vegetation, which is 86% of the total number of fires for the week.
«Yesterday at 23.30 (19.30 Moscow time) near the village of Mariinka, a large landscape fire with a front of 1.5 kilometers was detected, which created a direct threat to settlements. All measures were taken, the administration, agricultural producers were actively involved in the work … At the same time, the population had to be evacuated to safe areas,» Orlov said.
According to the central office, a total of 36 people who live in 22 houses in the Mariinka, Vengerovsky district, were temporarily evacuated to a safe distance. By Wednesday morning, the fire was extinguished, there were no dead or injured, the village is safe.
According to Orlov, at present, the situation with natural fires in six districts of the region, where burning occurs in hard-to-reach wetlands, remains under control. There are no threats to settlements. In four districts, there are five forest fires on an area of more than 57 hectares, of which two fires are localized on an area of 36 hectares.
«Today, taking into account the current situation, it is planned to use the aviation of the Russian Guard in the Kuibyshev region, which will remove the threat to four settlements,» Orlov also said.
He proposed extending the special fire regime in the Novosibirsk Region until May 23. Andrey Travnikov, the governor of the region, supported this proposal. 1870628496.html» data-title=»The families of those killed in fires in the Kurgan region will receive one million rubles each»>