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Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.

At least three are dangerously close to population centres in Irkutsk region.

Firefighters tenderly carry the little pigs to safety during four hour battle to extinguish fire.

A smoky haze in British Columbia originated in Eastern Siberia, says a top Canadian meteorologist.

Forest infernos will be extinguished by the weekend, pledges government, as wildfires become political issue in Moscow.

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

Omsk region emergency services said number of wildfires is seven to ten times above the ‘norm’.