The federal information fire prevention campaign “Stop the fire!”
The Federal information fire prevention campaign “Stop the fire!” has started in the Russian Federation. It is aimed at reducing the risk of man-made natural fires.
The main cause of forest fires in the spring is the careless handling of fire by the local population, including unauthorized burning of dry vegetation in fields, house territories, and summer cottages. Therefore, it is necessary to comply with the ban on such burning, as well as inform citizens about the inadmissibility of such actions.
“The vast majority of fires are the work of people. Especially in spring,” said Ivan Sovetnikov, head of the Federal Forestry Agency. “In 2021, about 10,000 forest fires occurred precisely through the fault of man, including due to careless handling of fire, burning grass, fire moving into the forest from neighboring lands. The owners of such lands should be held accountable for violating fire safety rules on land plots and for the fire to pass from their territory to the lands of the forest fund.”
The fire season is already open in 6 constituent entities of the Russian Federation: throughout the Karachay-Cherkess and Chechen Republics, Astrakhan, and Kaliningrad regions, in 20 municipalities of the Primorsky Territory, in 6 municipalities of the Amur Region. A special fire regime has been introduced in 2 constituent entities of the Russian Federation: in 2 municipalities of the Trans-Baikal Territory, in 6 municipalities of the Amur Region.
At the end of 2021, only by the efforts of forest industry workers as part of the information campaign “Stop the fire!” in Russia, almost 30,000 open lessons were held with schoolchildren, about 355,000 explanatory conversations, lectures, and gatherings of citizens, more than a million leaflets, leaflets, booklets, brochures were distributed, and more than 64,000 information boards, fire-fighting stands, and billboards were installed in the forests.