Tag: Russia

В 2012 году была образована Федеральная диспетчерская служба лесного хозяйства. Сотрудники ФДС проводят ежедневный мониторинг лесопожарной обстановки на территории лесного фонда и землях иных категорий. Предоставляют полную информацию о динамике лесопожарной обстановки, наращивании сил и средств на тушение лесных пожаров в субъектах РФ для работы оперативного штаба Федерального агентства лесного хозяйства. Специалисты ФДС, также являются операторами Прямой линии лесной охраны, на которую по единому бесплатному номеру 8-800-100-94-00 в круглосуточном режиме наши граждане сообщают о различных происшествиях в лесу – возгораниях, незаконных рубках, свалках мусора и др., а также получают консультации по интересующим их вопросам. Лесники благодарят всех, кто не остался равнодушным и сообщил об увиденном дыме, свалке или незаконной рубке. #леснойпожар #лес #пламя #героизм #парашютисты #десантники #огонь #пожар #лесной_пожарный #Avialesookhrana #Forest #fire #firefighter #smokejumpers #лесныепожары #bomberos #авиация #firefighterslife #пламя #helicopter #aviation #aviales #экстрим #air #plane #sky #bombeiros #авиация #авиалесоохрана

A photo posted by Федеральная Авиалесоохрана (@avialesookhrana) on Jun 3, 2016 at 6:15am PDT

Google’s machines translated the caption:

“avialesookhranaV 2012 Federal dispatch Forest Service was established. Employees FDR conducted daily monitoring of the forest fire situation in the territory of the forest and lands of other categories. It provides complete information on the dynamics of the forest fire situation, a buildup of forces and means for extinguishing forest fires in the regions of Russia for the operational staff of the Federal Forestry Agency.

FDR Specialists are also operators of hotline forest protection, which according to a single toll-free number 8-800-100-94-00 round the clock our citizens informed about various incidents in the forest -. Fire, illegal logging, garbage dumps, etc., and also receive advice on matters of mutual interest.

Foresters are grateful to all those who did not remain indifferent and told about what they saw smoke, landfill or illegal logging.
Lesnoypozhar # # # Forest flame heroism # # # paratroopers paratroopers fire # # # fire lesnoy_pozharny #Avialesookhrana #Forest #fire #firefighter #smokejumpers # lesnyepozhary #bomberos # Aviation #firefighterslife # flame #helicopter #aviation #aviales # extreme #air #plane #sky #bombeiros # # aviation Avialesookhrana”

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And then there’s this, which appears to be about prescribed fire:

#Repost @yazenok (via @repostapp) ・・・ Даем возможность сгореть большим лесным завалам (отходы), выпуская огонь в лес. После этого сбиваем пламя We give the opportunity to burn forest debris. We produce fire in the forest. then extinguish the flames ____ #Авиалесоохрана #рослесхоз #хмао #советский #югорск #avialesookhrana #rosleshoz #hmao #smokejumpers #smokejumper #firefighter #firefighters #bomberos #russia #yugorsk #sovetskiy

A photo posted by Федеральная Авиалесоохрана (@avialesookhrana) on Jun 2, 2016 at 1:17pm PDT

Google’s translation:

“We give the opportunity to burn a large forest debris (waste), releasing a fire in the forest. Then we bring down the flame
We give the opportunity to burn forest debris. We produce fire in the forest. then extinguish the flames
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# # Avialesookhrana FFA KhMAO # # # Soviet Yugorsk #avialesookhrana #rosleshoz #hmao #smokejumpers #smokejumper #firefighter #firefighters #bomberos #russia #yugorsk #sovetskiy
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While the government of Siberia reported on May 26 that 319,000 acres (129,000 hectares) had burned this year, environmental activists insist the number is far higher. Greenpeace Russia believes officials and regional authorities intentionally announce figures that underestimate the scale of forest fires. Using open source satellite data, Greenpeace says about 7.4 million acres (3 million hectares) have burned as of May 23.

Below is an excerpt from an article at the Siberian Times:

…Rosleskhoz, the Federal Agency for Forestry, a federal executive body responsible for oversight of forestry issues, admitted that official figures from regions may be at odds with the actual area of raging fires. Among other reasons this could be ‘because of political factors’.

The agency promised to provide correct data about damage at the end of the [fire] season.

Nikolai Krotov, deputy head of Rosleskhoz, said: ‘We have concerns about differences in Amur region, Buryatia, Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk regions. We don’t rule out that there can be political factors, subjective factors, when information is submitted in a different way.’

Greenpeace has argued for information in real time, not at the end of the season, so fire-fighting resources can be switched between regions to be deployed in most needed areas.

Related:
—Wildfires in Russia may be sending smoke to northern Canada, May 22, 2016
—Early spring fires in Russia, April 1, 2016

Wildfires in Siberia may be to blame for some of the smoke that has passed over Alaska and northern Canada in recent days. Meanwhile, fires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba are contributing to the smoky skies in Ontario, Canada and the Midwest in the United States.

Below is a video showing a vehicle in the Chernyshevsky District of Russia, 300 km from Chita, driving through smoke near a wildfire. It was uploaded May 17, 2016.

Articles on Wildfire Today tagged “smoke”.

Основная причина ранних весенних пожаров – это массовые самовольные выжигания сухой травы на полях, дачных участках. Под воздействием ветра огонь молниеносно переходит на населенные пункты, объекты экономики, в леса и на торфяники, не щадит ни людей, ни животных. #леснойпожар #лес #пламя #героизм #парашютисты #десантники #огонь #пожар #лесной_пожарный #лес #avialesookhrana #Forest #fire #firefighter #smokejumpers #лесныепожары #bomberos #авиация #firefighterslife #героизм #пламя #helicopter #widlandfire #widlandfirefighting #aviation #airguards #aviales #экстрим #air #plane #sky #bombeiros #авиация #авиалесоохрана

A photo posted by Федеральная Авиалесоохрана (@avialesookhrana) on Mar 31, 2016 at 1:31am PDT

This Instagram was posted by the Russian Aerial Forest Protection Service, an account that frequently has photos of their smokejumpers.

Here is Google’s attempt to translate the caption (without the hashtags):

Main reason for early spring fires – a massive unauthorized burning of dry grass in the fields, suburban areas. Under the influence of wind fire lightning moves on settlements, economic facilities, in forests and on the moors, spares neither people nor animals.

From the Moscow Times:

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“Shortly after President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that officials should be held responsible for damage caused by recent wildfires in a southern Siberian region, investigators said the head of a local fire department had been arrested for negligence.

Viktor Zenkov, a district firefighting head in the Khakasia region, “did not personally go to the area affected by the fires or arrange for people and their property to be saved,” federal Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said in a statement, adding that the arrest was one of several being made.

The wildfires, believed to have originated as small-scale agricultural grass burning that grew out of control amid abnormally dry conditions, have killed at least 31 people and left about 5,000 people homeless in the region in recent weeks.

During a visit to the region on Tuesday, Putin told Governor Viktor Zimin that firefighting officials should be evaluated “for what they did and didn’t do,” state media reported. The president also told Zimin to promptly distribute aid payments to the victims of the fires and rebuild their homes.

The governor assured Putin that within the next three days the regional government will have paid 90 percent of those individuals entitled to compensation, state news agency TASS reported.

The governor said that 1,722 payments ranging in size from $200 to $2,000 have already been made. He added that the local administration was prepared to rebuild the victims’ homes by the Sept. 1 deadline set by the president.

Putin said he would return to the region in about two months to check on the progress of the work, according to a statement on the regional administration’s website. Last week during his annually televised call-in show, Putin promised $100 million in federal aid to the region.”

The video shows vehicles driving through a wildfire on April 13, 2015 near the suburban village of Zabaykalets in eastern Siberia. Over the last week wildfires in the region have killed 15 people and destroyed 1,000 structures.

At 0:50 a vehicle can be seen that appears to have something burning on its roof.