Almost 3.5 million hectares of forest burn in Yakutia

Forest fires in Siberia do not eager for several weeks continue to spread. According to Roshydromet, most of the forest fires and their scale increased in Yakutia, in one of the most affected regions – about 3.5 million hectares of forest arrays are burning there. Access to many of the fires is difficult, the report says to which Deutsche Vella refers.

According to the American Space Agency NASA, for the first time since the beginning of accounting, smoke from fires in Yakutia reached the North Pole, which is at a distance of 3,000 kilometers. According to NASA, on satellite images, a thick smoke is visible, covering “most of Russia”.

According to Interfax, because of the smoke from forest fires in Yakutia Airlines on August 9, they detained and postponed dozens of flights to the cities of Siberia and the Far East.