In Irkutsk Region, work continues to eliminate smoldering peat deposits. Despite rainy and cold weather, fires have flared up again, and three hotspots over 50 hectares are now registered in Irkutsk and Usolsky districts. Special measures are being used to extinguish them, including digging a trench to fill with water, and several hotspots have already been eliminated in one district. Observations show no carbon monoxide levels above the limit, and there is no threat to settlements.

Work to extinguish the burning of peat deposits continues in the Angara region. Despite the efforts of firefighters and favorable rainy and cold weather, the burning resumed. Three fire hotspots have now been registered in peat bogs in the Irkutsk and Usolye districts; in total, the area of smoldering deposits in the Irkutsk and Usolye districts exceeds 50 hectares.
Four kilometers northeast of the village of Burdakovka, where the lands of the Irkutsk Research Institute of Agriculture are located, work has been completed to connect three streams flowing near the fire hotspot into one ditch; this is necessary in order to flood the hotspot with water and extinguish the fire, and it is currently being filled. Also, 1.5 km north of the settlement of Dzerzhinsk, in the floodplain of the Ushakovka River, smoldering of peat deposits has resumed; at present, the fire area there is about one hectare.
Four kilometers southwest of the village of Kultuk in the Usolye district, 10 km southwest of the settlement of Novozhilkino on a swampy area drained during Soviet times, as a result of the measures carried out the day before, a total of four peat fire hotspots over an area of 0.025 hectares were extinguished. Five people and 2 vehicles from the Novozhilkino volunteer fire brigade were involved in the work. If necessary, forces from the 17th detachment of the Federal Fire Service will be deployed.
On October 10, an on-site meeting of the Emergency Prevention and Response Commission and Fire Safety Commission of the Irkutsk district was held on the basis of the Ushakovskoye municipal formation, following which a decision was made to continue further work to eliminate the fire hotspots.
11.10.2014 г. 4 firefighters, 2 water tankers from the Specialized Fire Station and Fire Station No. 1 of the Federal State Institution "2 OFPS" were involved in peat extinguishing operations.
As of October 11, according to observations by the Irkutsk Center for Monitoring Environmental Pollution in the cities of Irkutsk, Usolye-Sibirskoye, and Angarsk, no exceedances of the maximum permissible concentrations (MPC) for carbon monoxide have been recorded. There is no threat to populated areas.
Based on materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region.