Employees of the State Emergency Service during this period rescued 26 people. On this Tuesday, August 15, said the head of the rescue department, Nikolai Chechetkin.

According to him, to date, the number of fires in the country's forests has almost doubled, and the area of ??fire increased by 5.5 times. The largest number of fires in the state forest fund arose in the Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Lugansk and Kharkov regions, the head of the State Emergency Service explained, adding that in the first two weeks of August, the number of fires in natural ecosystems decreased by 12% compared to the same period of the previous year, and the area , Traversed by fire - by 9%.

The indicator of the number of fires on peatlands also decreased three-fold, "Chechetkin recalled..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the State Emergency Council warns of an emergency and high fire danger in Ukraine. On August 15-18, in the Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Poltava, Cherkassy, ??Kirovograd, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Nikolayev, Sumy regions, August 15-16 and Volyn regions, an emergency hazard of the fifth class. In the rest of the territory, except for Transcarpathia and Odessa, high, fourth-class, fire danger is expected.