Wildfires raging close to Russia's main nuclear research center have grown in size and emergency services are working round the clock to contain the blaze, officials said on Friday.
Wildfires raging close to
Russia
's
main nuclear research center have grown in size and emergency services are
working round the clock to contain the blaze, officials said on Friday.
Russia
has
sent thousands of firefighters to douse wildfires close to its top nuclear
research center in Sarov, a town in the
Nizhny Novgorod
region.
"The fire, which appeared in the eastern part of the nature reserve two
days ago after lightning struck a pine tree, has grown in size and now presents
a certain danger," the head of the emergencies ministry for Mordovia,
Major General Vyacheslav Kormilitsyn, said in a statement.
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