In Russia, residents defend their village against forest fires

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The inhabitants of the village of Naïsteniarvi, in the Republic of Karelia (north-west of Russia) have been fighting themselves since July 14 against the fires which ravaged the surrounding forests. Rescue alone did not manage to overcome it.

In a burning forest, a man in shorts tries to put out the fire by hitting the blaze with a shovel. “There is nobody! We are all three, that’s all,” laments the one who films the video on July 19, a few kilometers from the village of Naïsteniarvi, in the Russian Republic of Karelia. It was picked up by several Russian media:


The video was filmed by Anton Lukashevich on July 19.

The first outbreaks broke out on July 14 near this village of a thousand inhabitants located 500 kilometers north of Saint Petersburg. This year again, Russia is affected by forest fires particularly violent in several regions.

“If the locals hadn’t been there, I don’t know what would have happened”

The video was filmed by Anton Lukashevich, 22. He posted it on social networks to alert firefighters to the residents’ distress. A student from the village, he had returned from Moscow for vacation when the fires started. Faced with the exceptional scale of the fires and insufficient relief efforts, the villagers organized themselves:

I saw on [le réseau social] Vkontakte that men were urgently sought to help extinguish the fire. When I arrived there, two members of the teams from the Ministry of Emergency Situations were seated. There was a fire engine and, all around, residents came to help: with shovels, buckets, cans. Everything was up in smoke and we were waiting to be told what to do. (…) On the second day, we started to organize ourselves: we collected all kinds of barrels, we bought all the watering cans from the shops, and we took them to the site of the fire on trailers.


The video was filmed by Anton Lukashevich on July 19.

In the first days, it was mainly the young people who helped. Then, people spontaneously got together and everyone was there: the women, the children who, under the supervision of their parents, brought water, and old people too… Young people arrived from Petrozavodsk, Moscow, from St. Petersburg, some have taken time off to come and lend a hand.

Now we are patrolling, pouring water into barrels that we have placed along the road. Rescue and firefighters, too. But the first few days, we struggled with our own strength.

If we hadn’t sounded the alert, and the locals hadn’t been there, I don’t know what would have happened. The residents held on until the end, as they fell from fatigue. They slept two hours a day and did such a hard job: we had to run with 20-liter iron buckets in each hand. My legs still hurt. We must be proud of these inhabitants who have done such a job without preparation, without anything.


The video was posted on July 19 in the Vkontakte group used to coordinate volunteers to put out the fire.

Volunteers also played a crucial role in the evacuation of the village on July 18: Anton drove back and forth three times to evacuate people before the buses arrived. About 500 people were evacuated. According to him, at least 40 villagers participated in the efforts to put out the blaze. If the fire is now under control, Anton fears that with the return of the drought, the fires will resume.

On July 23, the Governor of the Republic of Karelia saluted the work of firefighters, rescue workers and volunteers to fight the fire. On social networks, the regional authorities have published several videos showing the involvement of firefighters in efforts to put out the fire, while emphasizing the need to work with volunteers.

This year, the Republic of Karelia has experienced record fires since the turn of the century, with 20,000 hectares gone up in smoke since January 1, 2021, according to the data satellites of the Federal Forest Agency of the Russian Federation. Other Russian regions, in Siberia and the Far East, are even more affected by forest fires. According to the organization Greenpeace, approximately 10.8 million hectares have burned down in Russia since the beginning of the year.

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