Snow did not extinguish the peat bogs near Irkutsk

Despite the snowfall, peat fires in the Irkutsk, Usolsky and Angarsky districts will continue to be extinguished. The snow only covered the surface, but underground hotspots up to two meters deep remain. The air pollution does not exceed safe limits.

Despite the snowfall, extinguishing the peat bog fires in the Irkutsk, Usolye, and Angarsk districts will continue. As reported by the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region, the snow only covered the peat fields, but it did not extinguish the underground fires, which are located at a depth of up to two meters.
As a reminder, the peat bogs are burning 1.5 km north of the village of Karluk, in the Maksimovskoye municipal formation of the Irkutsk District, in the Angarsk urban district, on the territory of the Novozhilkinskoye, Bolsheelanskoye, Zheleznodorozhnoye, and Telminskoye municipal formations of the Usolye District, as well as in the Kartagonskiye fields and in the Mandalikha tract.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified that the concentration of harmful substances in the atmospheric air does not exceed the maximum permissible levels.