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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (82413)	8/3/2010 6:44:13 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

3 August 2010 Fires still spreading in parched Russia The BBC Online Some homes close to Moscow have been incinerated Russia is mobilising more forces to fight hundreds of wildfires still raging across a vast area east and south of Moscow amid a record heatwave. President Dmitry Medvedev has declared a state of emergency in seven regions. At least 40 people have died in fires. Extra firefighters have gone to protect a major nuclear facility at Sarov, in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It was a top secret site in the Cold War. Many children are being evacuated from summer camps threatened by fires. About a fifth of Russia's grain crop has been destroyed and there was another big rise in the price of wheat on international markets on Monday. Russia's emergencies ministry said 323 new fires had flared up in the past 24 hours, but most had been extinguished.