Now the area of ??ignition is 120 hectares. As the press service of the State Emergency Service informs, the fire started about three o'clock in the afternoon on the territory of the Polesskiy Nature Reserve in the 14th quarter there was a fire in the forest area by separate cells.

At present, after the aerial reconnaissance of the emergency site, the fire is extinguished at some sites in the depths of the forest.

Specialists hold a fire around the perimeter to prevent its spread beyond the marked area, - explained in the State Emergency Service, adding that now began a strong wind, which does not yet allow the fire aviation to rise into the air.

At the same time, according to the ministry, the distance to the border with the Republic of Belarus remains within 1.5 kilometers. At the moment, the strength of a total of 218 people and 40 pieces of equipment.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, on Monday, August 21, in Russia's Rostov-on-Don there was a fire in one of the private houses. Then the fire spread to other houses, and in one of them there was a powerful explosion of gas. As of nine o'clock in the evening, 25 houses are already on fire here. It is extinguished by several hundred people and helicopters.