We need more people : Exhausted firefighters battle Siberia blazes
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29/07/2021 - 08:34 With more than a month still to go in Siberia s annual fire season, more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of Yakutia s swampy coniferous taiga has already been lost Dimitar DILKOFF AFP 4 min
Byas-Kyuel (Russia) (AFP)
As thick clouds of smoke billow across the vast Siberian region of Yakutia, Yegor Zakharov and his team are racing to stop its smouldering forests from burning even more.
Members of Russia s Aerial Forest Protection Service, his team spent a recent July evening patrolling a five-kilometre (three-mile) trench they had dug at the edge of the village of Byas-Kyuel to keep an approaching wildfire at bay.
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