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 - Deputy Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Rais Gumerov, head of the sector of protection and protection of the forest fund of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexei Mosunov.
During the meeting, the issues of carrying out a set of measures for the fire-fighting arrangement of forests, making proposals to the draft order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation on catering for members of forest fire formations involved in extinguishing forest fires were considered.
“This year, in the regions of the Okrug, the plan for laying new fire-fighting mineralized lanes and building fire-fighting roads was overfulfilled,” said Alexander Ornatsky. “It is necessary not to slow down the pace of work next year.”
After the meeting, its participants discussed the results of the implementation of sanitary and recreational activities and plans to protect forests for 2023.