Byas Kyuel: Father and children stand in their burning forests, older with shovels in hand, the younger with plastic bottles filled with gasoline.
When his son poured fuel to the forest floor, observing when the fire increased made the black white birch stem, his father shoveled the dirt into the bar coal that appeared on the other side of the trench marked for controlled burns.
Ivan Fyodorov, 65, and his 42-year-old son Pyotr helped firefighters in the afternoon at the end of July to prevent the fire from reaching their land in the Siberian area of ​​Yakutia.
While large forest fires are annual events in Siberia, Blazes has been about Yakutia with increasingly malignant intensity over the past three years, burning its legendary northern forests known as Taiga.
With firefighters and emergency services struggling, hundreds of volunteers have joined efforts to load Blazes, which experts are related to climate change.
Fyodorov said the first fire had approached his farms around the village of Byas-Kyuel in June, but they could defeat him again.
Then come second.
Then the third.
“At that time, we did not have strength.
Good, these people came,” he said about a dozen firefighters who worked nearby.
Citing the government’s tapkan, Fyodorov said that he and his family had taken the fight into their own hands.
Pyotr has helped him for 17 consecutive days, while his three other sons and his daughter traveled four hours by car from the regional capital of Yakutsk in early July to do their part.
“We can’t cut our straw because we’ve been busy fighting with fire,” Fyodorov said.
Asked what he would do if the fire continued to increase in the coming years, he said: “I will fight fire, what else can I do.” “I went throughout my life in Taiga.
I depend on nature,” he added.
“We have to protect it.” Fires not only affect Taiga.
For days in July Yakutsk was covered in smoke fog that the monitor called one of the worst air pollution events in the world.
In the city around 300,000 people on the end of July weekend night, volunteers are preparing to go in a convoy for the Gorniy District, which is home to Byas-Kyuel and where some of the most intense fires have ramped that month.
About three dozen local athletic club members gathered around Dummy on the floor at the volunteer center where two emergency ministry officials conducted a quick rescue training session.
“Our job is to make you ready as soon as possible,” one shout to the group.
The men, want to move, half listen when they go back and forth.
“When our homeland caught fire, we cannot stand on the sidelines,” said the 50-year club head, Turgun Popov.
He told AFP that their goal was not to extinguish the fire himself, but to provide professionals “the opportunity to rest for several hours or a few days because they have eaten for months for months.” At the beginning of the day the center had sent 10 volunteers with helicopters to the Lena Pilar National Park as a natural rock formation on the UNESCO legacy list and planned to send more weeks.
When the Emergency Ministry officials trained members of the sports club, 25-year-old volunteers Lili Odun received two phone calls from other people who were interested in using it.
Popov moved into the sky running out outside to explain why people volunteered.
“Nothing breathes,” he said.