Dry grass on the slope of a mountain in KBR caught fire on the area of 700 sq. m.
Dry grass on the slope of a mountain near the town of Tyrnyauz in Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria caught fire on the area of 700 square meters. meters. This was reported on January 3 by the main regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.
"At 20:10 on January 3 it was reported that in the vicinity of the town of Tyrnyauz there was a fire on the mountainside. Upon arrival at the scene it was established that dry grass on the slope was burning. According to preliminary information, the area of the fire is 700 square meters," - stated in the message in Telegram-channel.
The agency noted that the fire extinguishing is complicated by the inaccessibility of the area and the difficulty of accessing equipment. The head of Kabardino-Balkaria Kazbek Kokov specified that the fire of dry grass occurred on one of the slopes near the stadium "Baksan". He called careless handling of fire the presumed cause of the fire.
Later in the GU of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Kabardino-Balkaria added that there is no threat of spreading the fire on the mountainside in the vicinity of the town of Tyrnyauz in the Elbrus district to the settlement.
"There is no threat of the fire spreading to populated areas. <...> More than 300 meters of the burning front has been extinguished. A total of 26 people and six units of equipment were involved from the Russian Emergencies Ministry, as well as 10 people from the Elbrus forestry," the agency said.
The Prosecutor's Office of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic organized a check on the fact of the incident. Preliminary, there are no casualties.
Earlier in the day it became known that in the town of Amursk, Khabarovsk Krai, a car service station caught fire. The fire was localized on the area of 600 square meters. m. There were no casualties, but five cars burned. The reasons for the incident are being established.
