In Ukraine, a fire near Chernobyl extinguishes the tenth day

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The fire in the exclusion and resettlement zone on the territory of the Chernobyl Pushcha has not stopped for more than ten days. Despite the measures taken by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, about 5 hectares of peat are still smoldering.

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According to the Ukrainian authorities, “as of 7 a.m. on July 9, the situation is under control.” “The extinguishing of 2 localized pockets of smoldering peat continues on a total area of ​​5,1 hectares (0,1 hectares were eliminated per day).”

16 units of equipment and 94 people are involved in fire fighting. The fire fighting headquarters is deployed at the scene of action, a mobile task force is operating.

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A fire on an area of ​​about 130 hectares, in the exclusion and resettlement zone on the territory of the Chernobyl Forest, emerged June 29 as a result of fire of dry grass and reeds. It was reported that there is no threat of increased background radiation in the Chernobyl Pushcha area.

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The exclusion zone is a territory prohibited for free access that was subject to radiation contamination after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986. It includes part of the Ivankovsky and Polessky districts of the Kyiv region and the Narodichsky district of the Zhitomir region, as well as the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat.

This is the second major fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone in recent months. Earlier, on April 28, a fire arose in the area of ​​the villages of Buriakovka, Rudnya-Ilinetskaya, Glinka, Lubyanka of the Ivankovo ​​district. Then the fire engulfed an area of ​​about 400 hectares. As a result, the fire was eliminated.