This is the first time I have seen this in Moscow and the kids are having a blast. The fire department has popped a hydrant and are letting the kids have a deserved cool down…
The temperatures this week are going to be knocking on the door of 40 C. and that is wrecking havoc on Russia…
Notice the hydrant in the middle of the road. It is under a man hole cover. This is normal and they have to insert the hydrant before it can be used. So not just anyone can open a fire hydrant…
I was walking the dog and found the street flooded, so I followed the water and ended up at this fairy tale of a spot for children..
The situation in Russia with the fires, is getting worse, not better and we are starting to worry about our village home. Not that we can do much about it and if it burns it burns…
It seems that fire is on both sides of our village though many kilometers away. Luckily the village is protected by a river on one side major byways on the other side. But everyone knows that dry hot winds blows very hot fire…
If the fire decides to go after the village we will just pray that everyone gets out safe…
We can not just take a 450km jaunt and see if everything is OK because many roads are not accessible and it would be a very dangerous thing to do in the first place…
The video is in Russian but that will not distract from the purpose…
I woke this morning and could not see the rest of the buildings in the complex as it looked like a pea soup fog. My eyes were watering and I was sneezing and coughing from the smoke. You would have sworn that our building was on fire. Moscow is covered in a dangerous envelope of smoke. I know have developed a sore throat and blame that on the smoke in the air…
I want to touch on the fact that the Western press has decided that the fires are under control in Russia. Do not believe it…
Firefighters gain control over wildfires in Russia (cnn.com)
A ding dong in the Emergency department of Russia decided to make a statement about how 500 new fires have broke out but we got them all put out quickly! So that became a fact that the fires are under control in Russia…
We sit here and watch today, a total of 7,000+ devastating forest and peat bog fires covering about 500,000+ hectares of land are raging throughout much of the Russian territory. 34 people have died so far! Does that sound like the fires are about out?
I will keep an update going on the fires as I see things that change…
When You have very little as many Russians have and then that is taken from you, It gets sad…
Watch the video as the whole village burns and believe me they have no way to stop the fire in Rural Russia…
Wildfires raging in central Russia due to abnormally hot weather have claimed 30 lives, left 2,210 people homeless and caused damages worth over 4.6 billion rubles ($150 million), the Ministry for Regional Development said on Sunday.
The wildfires have affected 14 Russian regions, destroyed a total of 1,875 homes, with the largest destructions observed in the Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Ryazan regions, the ministry said, citing data as of late July 31.
As many as 771 wildfires were registered in the European part of Russia as of early Sunday, including peat bog fires, the ministry said.
Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past five weeks, causing peat bog and forest fires and creating what is thought to be the worst drought in the country since 1972.
Russian Prime MinisterVladimir Putin, who visited the fire-damaged Vyksa district in Nizhny Novgorod on Friday, severely criticized local administrations for their poor handling of the fire crisis and said local government chiefs who had failed to cope with the deadly wildfires must resign.
Many residents in the Nizhny Novgorod region, whose houses had been burnt down in the fires, complained to Putin, at the scene to assess the situation, that the actions taken by local authorities were chaotic and uncoordinated.
Putin has ordered a total of 5 billion rubles ($165 million) to be disbursed from the federal budget to the central Russian areas affected by the wildfires.
He said the families of those who died in wildfires would receive 1 million rubles ($33,000) in compensation each. He also said the government would allocate around 3 million rubles ($100,000) for the reconstruction of each burnt house.
The government will also allocate funds to compensate for the loss of personal property.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for the immediate construction of housing for those left homeless by the fires.
Windows to Russia!
Wildfires spread in western Russia, kill 28 (reuters.com)
Five killed as wildfires sweep central Russia (reuters.com)
Raging Wildfires Kill At Least 29 In Russia (news.sky.com)
Russia And California Battle Deadly Wildfires (news.sky.com)
Russia battles hundreds of wildfires (theglobeandmail.com)
Russian army to battle wildfires that have killed 28 (ctv.ca)
Russia sends army to battle deadly wildfires (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
