In Siberia, to fight forest fires, forces and resources are being increased. Additional aircraft, including Be-200ChS and Mi-8, as well as AGPS cadets with special equipment, have been sent to the region. Vladimir Puchkov demanded that resources be rapidly moved to the hardest areas and protection of settlements and economic facilities be strengthened, where fires mainly spread in mountainous and hard to reach terrain. In total, tens of thousands of people, hundreds of vehicles, and round the clock monitoring are involved in firefighting and patrols.

The Minister demanded that the grouping of forces and resources of the Russian Unified State System for Emergency Prevention and Response be strengthened in a timely manner and that they be promptly redeployed to the most difficult areas, and that additional measures be taken to protect settlements and economic facilities by the fire and rescue garrisons of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
By order of Vladimir Puchkov, additional aviation has been sent to the region to stabilize the forest fire situation and protect settlements and economic facilities from active fires in the territory of the Siberian Federal District – a Be-200ChS aircraft of the Federal State Unitary Aviation Enterprise and an Mi-8 helicopter of the Ural Aviation Rescue Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
Also, 40 cadets from the air-mobile group of the Academy of the State Fire Service, equipped with special gear, flew out to help extinguish the forest fires.
Vladimir Puchkov will hold a meeting of the working group of the government commission on the forest fire situation that has developed in the Irkutsk Region and Buryatia. As of today, most of the fires are located in mountainous and hard-to-reach terrain. A mobile reserve has been created to address operational issues in the most critical areas, taking into account the developing situation and the forecast. Forest fire suppression is being monitored around the clock.
In total, to extinguish wildfires, protect settlements, and ensure fire safety in the territory of the Siberian Federal District, a grouping of forces and resources of more than 46,000 people and 8,900 units of equipment has been deployed, including 26 aircraft, 16 aircraft from the Russian Emergencies Ministry, including in the territory of Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region more than 21,000 people and 2,000 units of equipment, including from the Russian Emergencies Ministry – 8,770 people and 247 units of equipment, including 10 aircraft, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reports.
Recall that on August 14, Puchkov flew to the Irkutsk Region and Buryatia. Then he said that the situation with forest fires in Siberia was under strict control. The head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry promised to extinguish all forest fires by August 17.
Patrols have been organized by the forest management agency, the Emergencies Ministry, the Interior Ministry, municipal formations, and Cossacks – 245 patrol groups are operating, and patrols have been carried out in 302 settlements and 76 gardening and summer cottage non-profit associations of citizens. More than 800 people and 168 units of equipment are involved in extinguishing the forest fires. To restrict citizens’ access to forests in the Irkutsk Region, 123 checkpoints have been set up, including 78 stationary and 45 mobile ones. Since the beginning of 2015, forest inspectors have drawn up about 600 administrative reports, administrative fines totaling about 13.5 million rubles have been imposed, and 95 cases have been opened on the facts of forest fires.