Now police officers of the Russian Interior Department in the Tuapse region are conducting an investigation and are also identifying witnesses and eyewitnesses of the incident.
“All tourists who were previously taken to a safe place returned to their hotels,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “The fire was complex, the situation was aggravated by the dry and windy weather.”
Boyko thanked the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Kuban-SPAS and the rescue service of the Tuapse region, police officers, foresters, volunteers, specialists of forest fire stations, including those who came to help from Goryachy Klyuch, Krymsk, Arkhipo-Osipovka.
A fire broke out in the picturesque Inal Bay on the Black Sea last night, destroying 1.2 hectares of forest. The fire was extinguished with water drops dropped from a helicopter.