A meeting of the headquarters for the coordination of activities to extinguish forest fires was held at the Department of Forestry in the Volga Federal District
Today, the Department of Forestry for the Volga Federal District held a meeting of the headquarters for coordinating activities to extinguish forest fires in the Volga Federal District. The meeting was held via videoconference chaired by the head of the department Alexander Ornatsky.
The event was attended by representatives of the forest management bodies of the district, including from the Republic of Tatarstan - the head of the sector of protection and protection of the forest fund of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexei Mosunov.
Opening the meeting, Alexander Ornatsky said that since the beginning of the year, 604 forest fires have been recorded in the Volga Federal District on a total area of 16.9 thousand hectares. “With the onset of autumn rainy weather with low average daily air temperature in the regions, the class of fire danger in the forests has decreased,” he said. “The fire season is already closed in the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.”
Further, the issues of redistributing the remaining funding allocated for the protection of forests from fires and preparing for the fire season in the forests of 2023 were considered.