Consultants blame the worsening scenario with fires on a 2007 choice to disband a federal aviation community tasked to identify and fight fires and switch its property to regional authorities. The forests that cowl enormous areas of Russia make recognizing new fires a problem, and the much-criticized switch led to the pressure’s fast decline.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/state-of-emergency-in-russias-yakutia-expanded-over-fires/2021/08/13/c03ab980-fc2c-11eb-911c-524bc8b68f17_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world | State of emergency in Russia’s Yakutia expanded over fires