According to the regional task force dealing with the emergency, a dozen villages in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in northeastern Siberia were at risk of fire. (Representative image: Reuters)
On Saturday, flames destroyed 31 houses and eight maintenance buildings in another village, Beas-Kuel, and about 400 residents were evacuated.
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Russian authorities began to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active wildfires burned on Sunday.
According to the regional task force dealing with the emergency, a dozen villages in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in northeastern Siberia were at risk of fire. Local officials were moving residents of the two villages, Kalvitsa and Kharialakh, to other inhabited areas, as a total of 3,600 people worked to contain about half of the blasts.
On Saturday, flames destroyed 31 houses and eight maintenance buildings in another village, Beas-Kuel, and about 400 residents were evacuated, local officials said.
Yakutia’s governor, Esen Nikolayev, ordered the authorities to deforestation the areas around the endangered villages.
In recent years, Russia has recorded higher temperatures that many scientists believe to be a result of climate change. Hot weather coupled with neglect of fire safety rules has given rise to an increasing number of fires.
Experts also blamed the worsening fire situation in 2007 on a decision to disband a federal aviation network that had witnessed and combated wildfires. The assets of the network were transferred to the regional authorities, a very critical move that led to a rapid decline in the incendiary forces.
The forests covering vast areas of Russia make identifying new fires a challenge.
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