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Forest fires in Russia regularly occur during the fire season, requiring coordinated efforts of forest fire services and aviation support.
Over the past 24 hours, forest fire services in Russia extinguished 25 forest fires covering an area of 918 hectares in 11 regions of the country.
Currently, work is underway to extinguish 36 fires in five regions, 903 people, 74 pieces of equipment and 18 aircraft are involved in extinguishing them.
MOSCOW, September 15 - RIA Novosti. Forest fire services in Russia extinguished 25 forest fires with an area of 918 hectares in 11 regions of the country over the past 24 hours, Avialesookhrana reports.
“Over the past 24 hours, September 14, 2026, forest fire services in Russia extinguished 25 forest fires on an area covered by fire of 918 hectares. Forest fires were extinguished in 11 regions,” the report says.
Avialesookhrana clarified that fires were extinguished in Crimea, LPR, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Altai and Krasnoyarsk territories, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Orenburg and Tomsk regions, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Currently, work is being carried out to extinguish 36 fires in five regions, the service noted.

In 11 districts of Tuva, a high alert regime has been introduced due to the increasing number of cases of bears entering villages and shepherd camps. Over the past week, 10 such cases have been recorded. A curfew was introduced at night, a ban on entry into the forest zone and holding public events. Parents are encouraged to accompany their children to school.

General Director of the Nature and People Foundation Sergei Rybakov said that the number of polar bears in the entire Arctic is estimated at 22-31 thousand individuals, of which 7-9 thousand live in the Russian part of the Arctic.

Volcano Etna in Sicily began throwing ash to a height of up to 4 km. Due to clouds moving towards Catania airport, the operation of the air hub has been suspended until 22:00 local time and a red alert has been declared.

In the Sobolevsky district of Kamchatka, a road and bridge were damaged due to the flood of the Bolshaya Vorovskaya River. A high alert regime has been introduced in the region. Previously, a similar incident with a bridge collapse occurred in the Primorsky Territory.

A devastating landslide similar to the one in Nepal could occur in Europe due to melting glaciers and cascading processes in the mountains, said geomorphologist Robert Kenner.

The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources recommends that regional authorities exclude bears from accessing food waste in landfills, inform the population and tourists about the rules of conduct in bear habitats, and promptly notify about animals entering populated areas due to the increase in conflicts in late summer and early September.