Russian Fires Still Spreading - 13 Warehouses At Military Aircraft Storage Site Destroyed - BBC

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Moscow is mobilising more forces to fight hundreds of wildfires raging across a vast area of central Russia amid a record heatwave. At least 40 people have died in fires in the past week, and seven regions are under a state of emergency.

Officials say a naval aviation storage area outside Moscow burnt down last week, with the loss of an unknown quantity of hardware. Nobody was hurt but 13 warehouses were destroyed in the blaze near Kolomna, which began on Thursday and lasted into Friday, military prosecutors said.

According to Russian news agency Interfax, the Kolomna depot services aircraft from all of Russian navy's fleets. Earlier, the defence ministry denied Russian media reports that scores of planes and helicopters had been destroyed. Elsewhere, extra firefighters went to protect a major nuclear facility at Sarov, in the Nizhny Novgorod region. It was a top secret site in the Cold War. Many children are also being evacuated from summer camps threatened by fires.

About a fifth of Russia's grain crop has been destroyed and there was another big rise in the price of wheat on international markets on Monday. No let-up in the record heatwave is expected in the next few days. Temperatures in the Moscow area are expected to hit about 38C (100F) this week.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10850048

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1. Seems their world is changing before they were ready.

One-fifth of their wheat crop destroyed. Pray they get the rest of it to market.