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Strong wind aggravates the situation with bush fires east off Moscow City

29 July 2010 23:52 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Strong wind has aggravated the situation with bush fires blazing in the three eastern/southeast districts of the Moscow region â€“ the Yegoryevsk, Kolomna and Shatura, Viktor Klimkin, a deputy chief of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministryâ€™s Moscow branch said Thursday night, APA reports quoting Itar-Tass.
â€œBecause of the wind these blazes are moving to the category of crown fires from ground fires,â€ he said.
In connection with this, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu has dispatched an additional grouping of firefighting and rescue forces to the fire-stricken districts of the Moscow region, as well as to the Nizhny Novgorod region, which is located some 400 kilometers to the east of Moscow.
A column of special vehicles that left for Nizhny Novgorod includes ten firefighting tanks and twenty water-jetting vehicles.
â€œIn the Moscow region, we have a grouping from Moscow Cityâ€™s main department of our ministry,â€ Klimkin said. â€œIn part, ten road-tanks are operating in the Yegoryevsk district.â€
He said the fires in the three districts do not pose an immediate threat for the city of Moscow yet.