Foresters resist forest fires

As of April 27, 98 fires have been eliminated in the forests at an area of ​​41.3 hectares.

Deputy Chairman of the State Forestry Agency Volodymyr Bondar informed that a number of preventive fire and restrictive measures have been planned and already taken.

"There were 6 km of fire bridges, more than 1,2 thousand km of mineralized strips and cared for them more than 1.3 thousand km Covered 6.3 thousand unscheduled roads, 5.2 thousand visual agitation ", – said Volodymyr Bondar.

He also reported that more than one thousand raids were carried out and 32 offenders were brought to administrative liability for the amount of 5 thousand hryvnias.

In addition, the Deputy Head of the State Agency of Forestry drew attention to the fact that the forest fires were dealt with by employees of state forest enterprises with the involvement of the staff of the SNSS.

According to him, today the wear and tear of fire-fighting equipment is significant (70% of them are over 40 years old, mainly fire trucks on the GAZ-66 and ZIL-131 chassis).

"The issue of upgrading fire-fighting equipment, equipment and inventory is very acute," Volodymyr Bondar emphasized.

He also said that last year, forestry enterprises only purchased 3 fire trucks, 18 fire modules, 8 towers, 14 TBCs, 42 motor pumps, 506 RLOs, 7 tractors, 5 kvadrokopterov, 12 thousand fire trucks, at their own expense. pog m fire hoses.

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