![]() Seventy-five fires were being eliminated per day, the ministry added, but they would likely be battling fires for weeks.Īisen Nikolayev, the head of the Sakha Republic, said the massive wildfires are linked to the region's historic drought conditions. The ministry said in a news release that 2,714 people and 320 pieces of equipment were involved in helping to extinguish the flames. The fires covered more than 607,000 hectares of land, which is roughly 1.4 million acres or 2,220 square miles. More than 260 fires were burning in the region as of Monday, according to Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations. NASA said satellite data showed there were several small fires burning in the area on and off for weeks, but that several of the blazes "exploded in size" during the last week of June. ![]() NASA Earth Observatory Images by Lauren Dauphin This natural-color image showed large clouds of smoke surrounding the Sakha region. An infrared imaging device on the Suomi NPP, a polar-orbiting satellite system, picked up one of the images on July 5.
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