In Crimea, cases of dry vegetation fires have become more frequent. Firefighters “went to the people”

CrimeaPRESS reports:

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, in Crimea there is a seasonal increase in fires associated with the ignition of dry grass, reeds and garbage. Their main reasons, as in previous years, are violations of fire safety requirements by owners of private households, gardens and summer cottages when cleaning the territory.

Since the beginning of the year, fire and rescue units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have gone out more than 140 times to extinguish fires of dry grass and reeds. In order to stabilize the situation with “landscape” fires in Crimea, rescuers, together with the administration of rural settlements, carry out preventive measures aimed at preventing wild fires.

Particular attention is paid to the fire safety of populated areas, in particular, clearing areas of dry grassy vegetation and the presence of mineralized protective strips, which in the event of a forest fire will limit the spread of fire to populated areas.

Employees of the department of supervisory activities and preventive work for the Simferopol region, together with the administration of the Dobrovsky rural settlement, monitored the timely organization and implementation of measures for the construction of mineralized strips near populated areas of the region, which reduce the risk of fire spreading to residential and agricultural areas to a minimum.

The villagers themselves did not go unnoticed by government inspectors. Preventative conversations were held with them about fire safety rules as part of the fire season introduced on April 1— said the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Republic of Crimea.

During this period, it is strictly prohibited to make fires and carry out fire-hazardous work using open fire in forests, natural ecosystems and adjacent areas, including the deliberate burning of dry vegetation and household waste.

The use of open fire must be carried out in specially equipped places if the following requirements are met:

• the place where an open fire is used must be made in the form of a pit (pit, ditch) no less than 0.3 meters deep and no more than 1 meter in diameter or a platform with a metal container firmly installed on it (for example, a barrel, tank, barbecue) or container , made of other non-combustible materials that exclude the possibility of flame spreading and combustible materials falling out of the combustion area, with a volume of no more than 1 cubic meter. meters;
• the place where an open fire is used must be located at a distance of at least 50 meters from the nearest object (building, structure, structure, open warehouse, stack), 100 meters from a coniferous forest or separately growing coniferous trees and young growth, and 30 meters from a deciduous forest or separately growing groups of deciduous trees. When using open fire to burn dry grass, branches, leaves and other flammable vegetation on individual land plots of settlements, as well as on garden or vegetable plots of land, the place where open fire is used must be located at a distance of at least 15 meters from buildings, structures and other structures ;
• the area around the place where an open fire is used must be cleared within a radius of 10 meters from dead trees, dry grass, dead wood, logging residues, and other flammable materials and separated by a fire-fighting mineralized strip of at least 0.4 meters wide;
• a person using an open fire must be provided with primary fire extinguishing equipment to localize and eliminate the fire, as well as a mobile communication device to call the fire department.

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