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00:09, 25.09.2007 |
Far East Russia
The total area of fires raging in the Russian Far East has increased tenfold, from 18 to 170 hectares (44.5 to 420 acres), in the past 24 hours, a source in the local emergencies service said Thursday.
The number of fires in Far Eastern taiga doubled - from four to eight - but currently pose no threat to the local population or the infrastructure.
"Five [fires] of them are burning in the Sakhalin Region, two - in the Khabarovsk Territory and one in the Amur Region," the source said.
A total of 1.193 forest fires have swept over 400 hectares (988 acres) of Russian taiga this year.
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