According to the emergency service, the dispatcher of the Krasnodar fire and rescue department received a message today at 2:00 p.m. about a fire that broke out in the Kabardinsky forest district (this village is located near the resort town) in an area of 0.11 hectares. Garrison.
Literally a minute later, employees of the Gelendzhik fire and rescue garrison were quickly sent to the call site. At 2:43 p.m. the first unit of specialists from the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived at the scene. As it turned out, grass and bushes caught fire here on an area of a thousand square meters.
“At 15:51 the MI-8 plane took off from the airport of the resort city of Gelendzhik,” the department’s press service added. “At 5:25 p.m., 4 dumps were made with a volume of 12 tons of water.
It is reported that 118 people and 11 teams of the Russian Emergency Situations Service participated in the fight against the natural disaster, including 17 people and four teams of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
Recall that at the end of August a powerful fire broke out on the Markotkha slope near Gelendzhikoam, when from a blade of dry grass the fire spread at dizzying speed to 118 hectares of forest. 500 people and 90 pieces of equipment participated in extinguishing the largest fire in recent years in these places, as well as an aviation group consisting of three Mi-8 helicopters and two Be-200 amphibious aircraft.
