Forest Fire Problem Persists in Russian Far East
Posted on: Saturday, 9 July 2005, 06:00 CDT
Text of report by Russia TV on 9 July
Over 30,000 hectares of forest are now on fire in the Far East, in Yakutia. Sixteen new fires have broken out there during the last 24 hours
. The most devastating fire is in Sovetskiy and Gavanskiy Districts in Khabarovsk Region. The fire which covers over 7,000 hectares cannot be extinguished for the third week in a row. It is destroying huge taiga territories, as well as unique forests in Komsomolskiy, Bochinskiy and Sikhote-Alinskiy forest reserves.Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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