KavkazCenter - Fires continue to rage in Russia. Hordes of rats attack phenol-contaminated Moscow residents

Fires continue to rage in Russia. Hordes of rats attack phenol-contaminated Moscow residents

A minor decrease of the heat in central Russia was unable to stop forest fires.

Russia is continuing to burn. Even accoding lower official data, about 400 forest and peat fires were blazing on Friday. 139 new fire hotbeds were registered in one day, on Aug. 20.

According to media reports, Russia will increase its imports of cereals. Heat and drought destroyed the bulk of Russian harvest. Experts warn about upcoming food shortages and skyrocketing prices.

Ryazan region is also in flames. As of 08/20/2010, three giant forest peat fires continued to burn in the areas of Makeyevsky Cape, Klepikovsky district, in the village of Deulina, Ryazan region, and also in the Oka Biosphere Reserve. Extinguishing does not help.

Outside Moscow, there were also news fires. Yaroslavl firemen went once again to Moscow region to extinguish fires. The settlement Ilinskii Orekhovo in Zuyevsky district is now burning there, Yaroslavl media outlets report, without givng any details due to censorship.

A new giant fire flared in the Sverdlovsk Natural Park of Denezhkin Stone on August 20. It was detected by a space monitoring. Extinguishing is impossible: there are no roads, no special equipment, no Russian human cattle for its suppression, there are nothing, Russian occupiers of Ural complain.

Another huge fire broke out on August 20 in the natural reserve "Oka", Ryazan region. It is also impossible to extinguish it.

Continuing fires intensified by hurricanes and tornadoes deliver massive strikes on Russia. The fire areas are rapidly expanding.

Residents of the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod were left without electricity because of a hurricane on Aug. 20. The storm started suddenly. The wind increased to 27 m / sec. Streets turned into real rivers, many cars fell with wheels into in sewer manholes.

Hail with the size of a pea knocked out windows of the houses, squally gusts of wind broke power lines. Meteorologists predict a second wave of the storm. 90 wire breakages remain in the city. Hundreds of fallen trees are strewed everywhere.

Electricity and telephone lines in all localities in the south and north of the region were disrupted as a result of the thunderstorm. More than 15,000 houses were left without electricity. The main cutoffs occurred in the areas with huge fires.

Moscow city dump in the village of Saburovo is continuing to burn, emitting dioxin and phenol. A fire at a garbage dump turned into a disaster for the neighboring towns of Schelkovo, Fryazino and Ivanteyevka.

Local zoologists reported that rats begin to attack Russian houses in these towns. However, this ravenous hordes of hungry rodents is not the only problem for Moscow region residents, although it is their main disaster at the moment.

Harmful phenol is released into the air as a result of burning household waste, and locals are now forced to breathe it. The sabotage-inflicted fire at the dump is not extinguished, since it is physically impossible to extinguish it, and wastes continue to burn and smolder, producing more and more dioxin and phenol, which steadily accumulate in the bodies of Moscow residents till they die of it.

Phenol is a poisonous substance that disrupts nervous and circulatory systems in humans, burns out mucous membranes of eyes, respiratory tract and the skin. Phenol also damages brain tissues of Moscow residents.

Department of Monitoring

Kavkaz Center