No danger of radiation in the Russian Far East from blaze caused by welding accident, insist experts.
Boy, 11, jumped from 4th floor window engulfed by inferno; girl, 12, phoned aunt to say ‘Please tell Mum I love her'.
Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.
At least three are dangerously close to population centres in Irkutsk region.
No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.
After a month of warm, dry weather and wildfires, the huge crater nicknamed ‘Mouth of Hell’ is now under direct threat.
A family was rescued by helicopter after chopping birch trees and using them to spell 'SOS' when they were ringed by blazing wildfires.
Huge damage wrought by forest fires is sparked by failure to apply safety laws, complained Yuri Chaika.
Charred corpses removed from wreckage in Kemerovo with evidence that victims were trapped inside by locked fire doors.
As one area continues to fight blaze, communities in tragedy-hit Khakassia show that human spirit and togetherness can prevail.