Moscow: Russian authorities began to evacuate two villages in the vast Siberian region where 155 active forest fires were burned on Sundays.
A dozen villages in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia Siberia northeast are threatened by fire, according to regional task forces dealing with emergencies.
The local authorities moved the population of two villages, Kalvitsa and Kharyyalakh, to other areas inhabited when the crew numbered 3,600 people worked to load about half of the Blazes.
On Saturday, Flames destroyed 31 houses and eight maintenance buildings in other villages, Byas-Kuel, and around 400 residents were evacuated, local officials said.
Governor Yakutia Aysen Nikolayev ordered an official to clear the fire around the endangered settlement from dead wood and fallen trees.
The Yakutian government website has previously stated that Nikolayev has the deforestation of the area around endangered villages, but his spokesman said it was a mistake and there was no such order.
In recent years, Russia has recorded high temperatures valued by many scientists as a result of climate change.
Hot weather coupled with negligence of fire safety rules has caused more and more fires.
Experts also blamed the deteriorating fire situation in the 2007 decision to dissolve the federal flight network that saw and forest fires.
Network assets are transferred to regional authorities, very criticized movements that cause a quick decline of Fire-Spotting Force.
Forests that cover large regions of Russia make identifying new fires as a challenge.
Russia evacuated 2 villages in Siberia due to forest fires
