The media recalled that as of Wednesday, May 10, about 60 natural fires were recorded in the Sverdlovsk region.
Residents of Russian Yekaterinburg complain of smog and caustic fumes. This was reported by the Russian propaganda news agency TASS on Thursday, May 11.
In the Sverdlovsk region on Wednesday, May 10, about 60 natural fires were recorded. The fires that threatened the settlements have been extinguished.
“The strong smog that enveloped Yekaterinburg was brought precisely from the side of Asbest, where at the moment there is the most impressive fire area. According to weather forecasters, the wind direction is northeast. The wind in Yekaterinburg will change to the west on Friday around 04.00 (02.00 Kyiv time). This means that smog will remain in the city for almost a day, ”the press service of the Yekaterinburg administration specified.
According to the Ministry of Natural Resources of the region, on Wednesday in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, an excess of one-time maximum permissible concentrations of harmful substances in the air was recorded.
The message of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations states that on the territory of the Sverdlovsk region on May 11, 12 and 13 there is a high probability of smog due to forest fires.
As we already wrote, on May 7, large-scale natural fires broke out in a number of settlements in the region, and a state of emergency was introduced.
Earlier it was reported that the death toll in large-scale fires in the Kurgan region of the Russian Federation reached seven people.
