Russian media said the fire department outside the man-made disaster caused by the loss of billions of dollars short
589 locations in the fire
19.6 million hectares of land affected
50 people were killed in a fire
2000 people homeless
short-term loss of more than 15 billion U.S. dollars ... ...
these, only numbers, cold and stay out. Watched 20 minutes on his house reduced to ashes; just go out in 10 minutes Piqiang De tears; child shouted, "Mom, eye pain," we can not do anything ... ...
these is the real fire, that no place to hide in Moscow every day have to face the suffering.
life
all wear masks as "atypical pneumonia" when
from the end of June to early August, the Russian part of the region continued to experience a once high-temperature and dry weather. Arising from forest fires, the wind, spread to the Russian Central Federal District and along the Volga Federal District, 17 states and the Republic.
the past few days, the Moscow suburb of large fires to make a lot of smoke enveloped Moscow. This is in Moscow since 1970, suffered the worst smog. Aug. 4 morning, visibility was only 300 meters from the city center around some areas east of Moscow, visibility less than 20 meters. Chinese students studying in Moscow, the colt that nearly everyone these days on the streets wearing masks of the scene reminded him of 2003, "SARS."
"birds of the air is said to sensitive neighbor's a parrot on the choked dead. Doctors warned that without preventive measures, residents in the outdoors a few hours, the damage to the equivalent smoked 40 cigarettes.
Moscow health officials 安德烈谢利佐 9 Khodorkovsky, said the fire caused by days of hot weather and air pollution led to Moscow twice the mortality rate is the same period last year. Seltsovski said that 700 people died per day; hospital morgue placed the number of dead bodies almost saturated. increased mortality attributed to air pollution, forest fires and high temperatures. This means that the current mortality rate than last year in Moscow twice. Moscow this summer in terms of a 'season of death'。"
Russian Federation Air Transport Department spokesman 谢尔盖伊兹沃利 Gaussian description, on the 9th day About 10.4 million people left Moscow, while in previous years, about 7 million people. In addition to Moscow, forest fires caused haze of smoke over more than 10 cities, including the second largest city, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the Urals Federal District.
Russian meteorological data show that average temperatures in Moscow in recent weeks, more than 38 degrees Celsius, while the average temperature last year was 24 degrees Celsius.
Russian Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Service, said: "Over the past 1000 years, our ancestors have not been measured or recorded such high temperatures. This phenomenon is absolutely unprecedented."
fire
wildfires may result in radiation contamination with a new
present, despite the fire area has begun to decrease, but some important areas are still under the threat of flames, including the hidden in the jungle Among the nuclear research facilities. In the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered radiation contamination in the Bryansk region, is currently the object of close attention to the Russian government. Although 24 years have passed since the Chernobyl incident, but until now, Bryansk and several areas of radioactive contamination is very serious, the local peat swamp and forest soils contain a large number of radioactive particles.
According to reports, if the forest fire from spreading to those who have been contaminated by radiation area, the local heat generated by wildfires may cause harmful radioactive particles released into the air, this would result in radioactive contamination with the new.
impact
billions of dollars short-term loss
days of hot, dry weather contributing to forest fire, will result in substantial reduction in crop yields. 10 analyst estimates the Russian economy, days of forest fires caused by short-term loss could 150 billion, equivalent to the gross domestic product in 2010 of 1%. The Russian government has further reduced cereal production is expected. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the expected output will be reduced to 60 million to 65 million tons. He said that in order to meet the needs of the domestic market, may extend the ban on grain exports.
the fire also made "Mape group" received some criticism. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a serious disaster in the visit to the village of 维尔赫尼亚 Weilie Ya, also questioning the villagers. Some people shouted: "how should we live? Who is responsible for the fire?" Face the people's grievances, Putin pledged before the onset of winter, the Government would certainly have built housing disaster victims.
In addition, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the 9th Mengpi the head of some forest management negligence, in bursts of fire situation is still the most critical moment of vacation, indulgence, and "When I removed."
why the fire difficult to fight
"man-made" is the main cause of
half a century ago, the famous Russian writer Leonov in his masterpiece, "the Russian forest ", the profoundly reveals the E Senlin resources have been severely cut reality. Now, this raging fire caused havoc to the E Senlin, can not help but re-issued a "green lamented."
official in the Russian view, the main cause of the fire difficult to fight against Russia in its history is a rare high temperature and drought. In addition, the special environment has also increased peat fire fighting more difficult. Peat is the ancient low-temperature, wetland plants buried in the ground, after thousands of years of accumulation of the formation of a flammable material, the lighting is very low. When the air temperature exceeds the ignition, then very low humidity, the peat layer from the following start to spontaneous combustion. Scholars pointed out that even if the surface peat fire to fight fire, whether the flame will burn underground to continue.
However, there are media that the fire became part of the reason shall be vested in President Vladimir Putin was on forest management policies made by the deviation. In 2006, Putin was president of the central government abolished the system of forest management, forest protection responsibilities will be delegated to local governments. Despite Putin's initial idea was to clear of forest management authority to lower management costs, but local governments have because there is no regulation of the central government, resulting in greatly reduced forest fire prevention efforts.
In addition, the fire also exposed the Russian government's lack of awareness of forest fire prevention. Especially in the fire had just occurred, the relevant departments and not paid sufficient attention to the fires rage out of control when, too late. In addition, a considerable portion of forest fire spots were found a cigarette butt or easy fire goods, reflecting the weakness of the Russian people in fire prevention awareness.
the other hand, due to shortage of funds, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and the local fire department's equipment has not been updated for a long time, equipment aging seriously. Peat fire in response, the previously proposed to have local water ways to prevent peatland fires, but because of the financial crisis to the Russian government has enough money, so this program was once set aside.
also the media that the government departments including the military, after a problem is always Qishangmanxia until 纸包不住火 later released to the outside world.
edition Manuscripts: Xinhua News of the World
