Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev with Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Anatoly Suprunovsky at a meeting of the operational headquarters
The governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, ordered the creation of a fire patrol in each municipality of the region.
“We have learned to quickly detect fires and now we need to develop a system to quickly locate them – to deal with the fire at the initial stage, and not in widespread fire conditions, fire patrols firefighters should work in each municipality around the region. According to the press service of the regional administration, the deployment of forces should be brought closer to forests and places of rest,” the press service of the regional administration quotes Kondratiev's remarks during 39;a regional meeting dedicated to a forest fire near Novorossiysk
The governor also ordered hourly reports on the fire situation
.On Sunday, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported a forest and grass fire in the Durso farm area. The fire spread to the territory of the Blue Wave leisure center; it was later extinguished, but the forest continued to burn and the fire spread over 62 hectares. A state of emergency has been introduced in Novorossiysk. On Sunday evening, the forest fire spread to the recreation centers “Moryak”, “Romantique”, “Frégate”, from where people were evacuated in advance. A criminal case was opened under the article “Destruction and damage to forest plantations”. On Monday, the governor announced that the fire was under control.
Later, the operational headquarters was informed about the occurrence of two more forest fires in the Kuban, in the Seversky region – on an area of 1.2 and 0.9 hectares.
Evacuees are transported from recreation centers of the Kuban to a safe place