In the Sverdlovsk region, a landfill is burning on an area of 1.5 thousand square meters. m.

In Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a fire broke out at the Severny solid waste landfill, the fire area is 1.5 thousand square meters. m. This was reported on June 2 in the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Sverdlovsk region.

"The fire area is 1.5 thousand square meters, the garbage burns in scattered pockets. There is no threat of spreading to residential buildings and infrastructure facilities," the department's Telegram channel says.

16 employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and five pieces of equipment are working at the site. It is reported that extinguishing is complicated by the deep occurrence of fire foci, intense heat and wind gusts. Firefighters are filling up the fires with soil to cut off oxygen access, no information about the victims has been received.

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