The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and the Federal Forest Service are preparing an appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office. Ministries are being asked to consider Jewish Autonomous Region officials’ inaction during forest fires and their underestimation of ignition areas. writes about it TASS with reference to departments.
Alexander Kozlov, head of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, added: “My colleagues from Rosleskhoz and I purposely flew to the region to see what was happening here.” According to him, the situation is extremely serious.
Subject added that he noted the realities of underestimating the true extent of wildfires, ignoring federal headquarters’ recommendations for extinguishing fires, and utter inaction in the fight against landscape fires.
Kozlov instructed Rosleskhoz to prepare materials for the appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
It has been noted that the region, which has been included in the statistics since the beginning of the year, deliberately underestimates the detected forest fires and reflects the real areas after the fires are eliminated. The two points were significantly different. This led to mismanagement decisions.
As a result, the areas of a series of forest fires from the moment of detection to the moment of liquidation increased by about 900 times.
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