Large-scale forest fire and tactical exercises were held in East Kazakhstan
In the village of Cheremshanka, Glubokovsky district, under the leadership of the deputy akim of the East Kazakhstan region, Yerzhan Nurbayev, large-scale fire and tactical exercises were held in the forest zone.
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Zulfiya Suleimenova, during her working visit to East Kazakhstan, took part in this important event and assessed the response of civil protection services to natural emergencies.
According to legend, a forest-steppe territory caught fire on the territory of the KSU "Cheremshansky Forestry" as a result of a dry thunderstorm discharge
The fire spread quickly and turned into a riding fire. The situation was complicated by the wind, which is 12-14 m / s and 5, the highest class of fire danger. Arriving at the scene, the employees of the "Cheremshansky forestry", after conducting reconnaissance, found that there was a threat to the nearby village. The march of groups of forces and means to the emergency zone is carried out immediately.
For safety reasons, the evacuation of the population of the village by local executive bodies in "Vakhta" cars was organized. The fire extinguishing manager organizes a local fire extinguishing headquarters and determines 5 extinguishing sites. Employees of 6 forestry enterprises and a nature reserve are laying a mineralized strip that will protect against the spread of fire and at the same time extinguish the edge of the fire. Employees of the "Fire Extinguishing Service" of the Emergency Department of the East Kazakhstan Region and military unit No. 5518 of the National Guard of the Republic of Kazakhstan, are fighting the fire with the help of tank trucks, knapsack flattering fire extinguishers and firecrackers. For efficiency, the MI-8 RCSE "Kazavialesookhrana" helicopter with a spillway device comes to the rescue and extinguishes the fire from the sky. The landing units carry out an attack in order to prevent fire on forest crops, using knapsack fire extinguishers.
Volunteers of the KSU Youth Resource Center of the Glubokovsky district provide participants of fire extinguishing with food and drinking water.
Doctors of the VC branch of the Disaster Medicine Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan have deployed 2 mobile hospitals to provide first aid to victims.
A difficult and many-hour battle with fire, the efforts of rescuers, foresters, military and local executive bodies made it possible to completely stop the fire on an area of 150 hectares.
As noted by the Deputy Akim of the East Kazakhstan region Yerzhan Nurbayev: "Such exercises are needed to improve actions in large wildfires. All the conditions are close to the real situation. Trainings allow you to assess the readiness of emergency departments, forestry, and MIO for the occurrence of wildfires. The buildup of forces and means proceeded in accordance with the prevailing situation and according to plans to attract forces and means. Conducting such a large-scale training allowed the personnel of civil protection and rescuers, aviation security, foresters to hone their skills in extinguishing forest and steppe fires, taking into account the threat to human settlements," he noted.
The exercises were attended by the forces of the Emergency Situations of East Kazakhstan Region, employees of forestry and nature reserve, military unit No. 5518 of the National Guard of the Republic of Kazakhstan, units of "Kazavialesookhrana", Katasrof Medical Center, volunteers. A total of 51 pieces of equipment and 190 people, the MI-8 helicopter.
Press service of the Emergency Department of East Kazakhstan Region