Only Yakutia affected by forest fires in Russia Far East.

KHABAROVSK, August 17 (Itar-Tass) - Forest fires in the Russian Far
East continue only in Yakutia. A total of four fires have been registered
there on Wednesday - 136.5 hectares of forest and 68.6 hectares of
non-forest areas are burning. There are no wildfires in other Russian
Federation subjects in the east of the country, the Forestry Department of
the Far Eastern Federal District told Itar-Tass.
"Over the past day the forest protection service extinguished three
fires at an area of 319 hectares," the department said.
A state of emergency is in effect in 19 municipalities of the Republic
of Sakha (Yakutia). As a measure of prevention a special fire fighting
regime has been introduced in seven districts of the Khabarovsk Territory.
Since the beginning of the season, 1,714 wildfires occurred in the Far
Eastern Federal District. The fire swept more than 913 thousand hectares
of land, including 718 thousand hectares of forests. In Yakutia, 633.2
thousand hectares of forestland has burnt.