Prime Minister Vladimir Putin comforted survivors in one smoldering village and called on the officials to redouble their efforts against the disaster. He is currently on a visit to the Nizhny Novgorod Region, one of the areas affected by the wild fires.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the Regional Development Ministry to draft a housing construction program for all of the regions affected by the fire. He also commanded the Healthcare and Social Development Ministry to provide all necessary assistance to the fire victims and guarantee proper health and sanitary standards in the temporary shelters for those residents forced out of home, according to a Kremlin press release.
“The president said that large-scale rebuilding work and construction of new housing will require urgent funds to be made available and sent to the affected regions,” read another press release describing Medvedev’s telephone conversation with Putin on Friday.
Because of encroaching fires, more than 900 patients were transferred out of a Voronezh hospital and almost 2,000 children were evacuated from 12 summer camps. Fires in the Voronezh, Nizhny Novogorod and Moscow regions alone have destroyed more than 1,000 houses and left more than 2,000 people homeless, according to the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief.
The ministry deployed that more than 10,000 people and 2,158 pieces of equipment in efforts to control the fires.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the Regional Development Ministry to draft a housing construction program for all of the regions affected by the fire. He also commanded the Healthcare and Social Development Ministry to provide all necessary assistance to the fire victims and guarantee proper health and sanitary standards in the temporary shelters for those residents forced out of home, according to a Kremlin press release.
“The president said that large-scale rebuilding work and construction of new housing will require urgent funds to be made available and sent to the affected regions,” read another press release describing Medvedev’s telephone conversation with Putin on Friday.
Because of encroaching fires, more than 900 patients were transferred out of a Voronezh hospital and almost 2,000 children were evacuated from 12 summer camps. Fires in the Voronezh, Nizhny Novogorod and Moscow regions alone have destroyed more than 1,000 houses and left more than 2,000 people homeless, according to the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Disaster Relief.
The ministry deployed that more than 10,000 people and 2,158 pieces of equipment in efforts to control the fires.
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