Deputy Prime Minister Abramchenko: it is necessary to tighten the responsibility for agricultural fires – Russia |
May 9. Interfax-Russia.ru – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Victoria Abramchenko said that the latest man-made fires in the territory of Southern Siberia claimed the lives of 12 people, and in this regard, the press service of the Deputy Prime Minister reported this on Monday.
These are agricultural burns, arson, violation of fire regulations and careless handling of fire. A sobering responsibility should be imposed, not a fine of 2,000 rubles. Dry grasses can appear in people, which cause huge damage to both infrastructure and the forest fund. .
According to her, in Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Kurgan land and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 12 people died as a result of fires, 13 were hospitalized.
Abramchenko said that the authorities should provide prompt assistance in the spread of fires.
In turn, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov, said that one of the main causes of man-made fires was breaks and overlaps of overhead power lines of the Russian Federation and short circuits at electrical substations.
“The heads of the regions are raising the issue of the connection with the operational shutdown of such threats, as they are faced with the problem that this procedure has not been fully resolved,” Kozlov said.
The meeting also discussed the possibility of obliging the owners and users of the land plot to participate in extinguishing fires on their plots, added in the press service of Abramchenko.
As for forest fires, as Abramchenko said, in the desired year, the area covered by forest fires is 1.5 times less than last year (2022 – about 260 thousand hectares, 2021 – about 390 thousand hectares) .
The most burning regions in the penultimate year were Amur Region (22.6% of the total area), Primorsky Territory (17.9%), Kurgan Region (14.6%), as well as Khabarovsk Territory (7.3%), Krasnoyarsk Territory (6.8%), Jewish Autonomous Region (6.1%) and Irkutsk Region (5.6%). The regions account for 51.3% of the total and 80.9% of the total area covered by fire on the territory of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the press service reports.