Fighting fire in the Volgograd region employs more than five thousand people and more than 2 thousand units of equipment. Steppe fires have become a threat to 40 settlements of the region with a population of 12 thousand people. The settlements managed to be defended.

The fire is fought not only by the units of the federal fire service in the Volgograd region, the state fire protection, Rosgvardia, the Ministry of the Interior, the Russian Railways, voluntary fire brigades, but also representatives of the Cossacks and volunteers.

In the Volgograd region, additional forces are now being pulled from Rostov-on-Don, Astrakhan, Chechnya, Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Stavropol and the Krasnodar Territory. All this was said at the meeting of the operational headquarters by the governor of the Volgograd region Andrey Bocharov. He stressed that in most cases the cause of the disaster is the human factor. The head of the region drew attention of representatives of law enforcement bodies. "To understand the scale - fireballs flew through the Don, fire approached the objects of special danger. But the roads are not cut, people are saved, "- said Bocharov.

On Wednesday, 753 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centers. Evacuated residents of villages, children from three health camps. Complex situation in the Middle Akhtuba, Danilovsky, Ilovlinsky, Kamyshinsky Volgograd, Olkhovsky districts. On August 23, the region's leadership introduced an emergency situation in the region.

On the same day, a hurricane wind hit the Volgograd Region. He broke the trees and fanned wildfires. In Volgograd, several cars have suffered from fallen trees in the Central, Voroshilov, Traktorozavodsky, Dzerzhinsky and Krasnooktyabrsky districts. The crashed tree smashed the windows of the children's library. The wind raised a dust storm. About human casualties while messages are not present. In the main park of the Volzhsky DK "VGS" all high attractions and blown trampolines were cut off, which according to the requirements of the TB can not operate at wind speeds exceeding 10 m / s. In the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, an abandoned tourist camp "Volga". Airport delayed the flights of Aeroflot, S7 and NordWind.

In extinguishing the fire, fire trains and fire aviation are involved.

On Wednesday evening in some areas of Volgograd it rained, and some were particularly fortunate - a real downpour. Verse and Hurricane Wind.

The fight against fire continues. On August 24 it is known about 155 burned houses in the districts of the region and one city district. In the morning, five thousand people were prepared for the evacuation. It is known that in the Olkhovsky district an elderly married couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The Volgograd priests began to pray for the cessation of fires.