Forests aerial surveillance of 4.6 thousand kilometers is planned in Bashkiria

UFA, 6 February 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Olga Murtazina/. In Bashkortostan, in the framework of the forest fire prevention program in 2018, aerial surveillance of forests along eight routes with a length of more than 4.6 thousand kilometers is planned. Ground patrolling along 1062 routes will cover more than 41 thousand kilometers.

In 2017, distinguished by a rainy summer, 38 forest fires were recorded in the territory of our republic with a total area of 354.5 hectares - almost four times less in number than in 2016, and half the area. For comparison: during the abnormally hot and dry summer of 2010 there were 608 fires in the region in an area of 11.6 thousand hectares.