Firefighters have localized a large-scale forest fire in the Svyati Gory National Nature Park in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions over an area of 6,000 hectares.
The State Emergency Service press service reported this today, September 6.
The elimination of individual smoldering forest litter outbreaks over an area of 130 hectares is ongoing, but the fire has not spread. The operational situation is being monitored to prevent a re-ignition, the department said.
It is noted that near the village of Studenok in the Oskol region of Kharkiv, from where the evacuation of local residents began on September 2 due to this fire, the fire has been localized on an area of 1,650 hectares.
In total, the fire covered an area of more than 5 thousand hectares within the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions:
- destroyed 302 homes;
- injured three local residents;
- As a result of the detonation of explosive devices left by the enemy after the deoccupation of this region, four firefighters from the Kharkiv garrison of the State Emergency Service were injured.
The forces and means of the Kharkiv, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lugansk and Cherkasy garrisons of the State Emergency Service were involved in the firefighting. A total of 71 units of primary and auxiliary equipment, a fire train and 245 rescue personnel, the department added.
Source: Racurs
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