Nine fires are raging today over a total 5,000 hectares. 1,200 Civil Defence firemen are fighting the calamity with 105 fire engines, three fire-extinguisher trains, and two aircraft-a plane and a helicopter-of the federal Ministry for Emergency and Calamity Relief.
Oleg Bogomolov, Kurgan regional governor, ordered the Ketovo district administration and welfare board to urgently enlist victims and people the fire left homeless, and accommodate refugees. District authorities have copes with a greater part of the assignment for now.
The refugees are putting up in Kurgan's and the Ketovo district's fitness camps. In particular, 189 people from the fire-consumed Chashinsky township are in the Aurora camp, and another fourteen at the Lesniki holiday hotel. A total 644 Chashinsky refugees are registered for today. All have received shoes, clothes and other bare necessities.
The Chashinsky secondary school had to finish its academic year ahead of schedule. The 125 local orphanage inmates are putting up in boarding schools nearby. The regional administration is thinking up a new orphanage address.
Offices have been started in Kurgan and Ketovo to collect public charitable donations on governor Bogomolov's order. Charitable bank accounts are opened. Big teams of agony psychologists and first-aid doctors have gathered in Kurgan city hospitals and the Ketovo district hospital from elsewhere.
The regional emergency commission had one of its regular sessions today, governor Bogomolov chairing. The team is ready with all necessary papers for medical aid and readjustment grants.
The governor telegraphed the federal Cabinet for rescue and repair allocations out of the government reserve fund. The regional administration has vouched emergency grants to people who lost all their possessions in the fire.
