In Sochi, mayoralty employees donate one-day salary to fire victims

Bureaucrats of the city will donate their one-day salaries into the assistance fund to victims of forest fires in Russia.

As reported by Sochi administration, Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov called all the employees of organizations and enterprises, irrespective of status and property form, to follow his subordinates.

The authorities of the city-resort Sochi also addressed resort managers to receive, wherever and whenever possible, fire victims for health rehabilitation.

The Russian Children's Fund has already called all the Russians to help their compatriots who have suffered from fires, and provides their health-rehabilitation centre at the disposal of victims' children, the ITAR-TASS reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Abkhazian authorities offer rest in sanatoria of the republic to children from the regions of Russia, which suffered from forest fires. This was stated yesterday by Prime Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba.

Let us note here that fires have also touched the regions in the south of Russia. Thus, yesterday a fire in the Kalachov District, Volgograd Region, spread to the area of 23.8 hectares. By the present moment the ignition is localized.

On July 29 four villages of the Serafimovichi District of the Volgograd Region - Prilipki, Beryozki, Otrozhki and Grushki - were saved from destruction by fire. Fire fighters and forestry employees lacked forces to save 550 hectares of 40-year-old pine-tree forest. Some days before that - on July 24 - in Staropoltavskiy District of the Volgograd Region coniferous forest in the area of 20 hectares was on fire.

In the context of fires in Kalmykia, the local Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) finds it necessary to introduce special fire-prevention regime in the Gorodovik, Lagan and Tselinny Districts.

According to the MfE, from the start of the year the district registered 47 natural (steppe) fires in the area of 8129 hectares, including 19 fires, categorized as large, that is, covering at least 25 hectares, the "Interfax" reports.