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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (11056)	8/3/2010 1:02:55 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 24232

3 August 2010 Fires still spreading in parched Russia The BBC Volunteers driving through wildfires are forced to flee from the approaching blaze Moscow is mobilising more forces to fight hundreds of wildfires raging across a vast area of central Russia amid a record heatwave. At least 40 people have died in fires in the past week, and seven regions are under a state of emergency. Some fires are in danger of getting out of control, the government said. Related stories Wheat prices reach 22-month high Russian fires: Your pictures Officials say a naval aviation storage area outside Moscow burnt down last week, with the loss of an unknown quantity of hardware. Nobody was hurt but 13 warehouses were destroyed in the blaze near Kolomna, which began on Thursday and lasted into Friday, military prosecutors said. According to Russian news agency Interfax, the Kolomna depot services aircraft from all of Russian navy's fleets. Earlier, the defence ministry denied Russian media reports that scores of planes and helicopters had been destroyed. Elsewhere, extra firefighters went 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 also 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. No let-up in the record heatwave is expected in the next few days. Temperatures in the Moscow area are expected to hit about 38C (100F) this week. 'Out of control' At a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said firefighters had managed to protect 360 populated areas in danger of forest blazes. But he warned that the situation was dangerously unpredictable. "In some places it is getting out of control and urgent firefighting manoeuvres are needed," he said. About 155,000 people, including 124,000 emergency workers, and more than 20,000 units of machinery are currently being used to fight the fires across Russia, the minister said.