Dead are mainly elderly people unable to flee, Russia media report
At least 21 people have died in wildfires in Russia’s Ural mountains, state media reported.. Local media reported that most of the dead were older people unable to leave their homes. According to local authorities, many of the deaths occurred on Sunday in the village of Yuldus, in Kurgan province on the border between the Urals and Siberia.Regional emergency service officials said the death toll could increase.
During a visit to Kurgan province on Monday, Russia’s emergency situations minister, Aleksandr Kurenkov, said settlements were no longer at risk from the blazes, though local media reported on Tuesday that fires still burned there, as well as in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen. The EU’s Copernicus atmosphere monitoring service said its data showed “active fires burning in a band stretching from Russia’s Chelyabinsk region across Omsk and Novosibirsk regions to Primorye in the far east, affecting also Kazakhstan and Mongolia.”
Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at Cams, said: “The scale and intensity of the current fires are reflecting increased fire risk following some weeks of drier than usual conditions.are not particularly unusual in the boreal forests spring, and we have monitored fires in both Canada and Eurasia at this time of year in the past. Nonetheless, we will continue to monitor these conditions as we approach summer when the boreal fire season starts to reach its peak.
In recent years, Russia has experienced especially widespread forest fires, which experts have blamed on unusually dry summers and high temperatures. The link between the climate crisis and wildfires is complex, but a
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