In pictures: As exhausted firefighters battle Siberia blazes, hundreds of volunteers join efforts to fight wildfires that some worry will trigger the melting of Yakutia's already-thawing permafrost Read more here 👇🏽
For days in July Yakutsk was covered in a smog that monitors called one of the world's worst-ever air pollution events.
Some three dozen members of a local athletics club gathered around a dummy on the floor in a volunteer centre where two emergencies ministry officials conducted a rapid rescue training session.The men, eager to get moving, half-listened as they shuffled back and forth. He told AFP that their goal was not to put out the fire on their own, but to give professionals "the chance to rest for a couple of hours or a couple of days because they have been putting out the fires for months."Environmentalists have long argued that Russia underfunds its forest fire fighting capabilities.
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