A Day of Fighting Forest Fires
A member of a Siberian firefighting squad starts his day by checking equipment.
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The Emergency Situations Ministry uses a special basket to dump water on forest fires.
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Dozens of hectares are burning as a result of dry hot weather, dry thunderstorms and human carelessness.
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An Emergency Situations Ministry Mi-8 helicopter scooped up three tons of Angara River water and dropped it on forest fires near the village of Boguchany, located about 560 kilometers northeast of Krasnoyarsk.
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