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Firefighters in the Yenisei district needed an air pillow boat to extinguish burning grass


May 4 16:20

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, to extinguish the landscape fire in the Yenisei district, water transport had to be attracted, they said in a forest fire center.

The day before, the video monitoring camera recorded smoke in the vicinity of the village of Ust-Kem. A fire truck with 6 forest firefighters from Yeniseisk was sent for intelligence.

“The path was blocked by the Kem River, which was spreading in the spring floods of the river. Quickly, a boat was delivered to the place, on which they crossed to the place of fire. 5 rescuers on a boat with an air cushion arrived to help, ”the press service said.

Instructor The landing and fire group of the Yenisei air department Maxim Permyakov said that the extinguishing was complicated by strong wind and high dry grass. Fire managed to knit with the help of blunts and a ranger forest fire extinguishers. It took 2 hours.

The reasons for the fire have to be understood by the investigation. The preliminary version is a careless handling of fire.