woke up at four o'clock in the morning, the room smell of burning. Looked out the window, the city drowned in smoke - it is clear, the taiga on fire.
do not know what explains official sources, the emergence of massive fires in the forests of the Far East, but I have heard many versions, which inspire confidence. Passing is much more Hundreds of thousands of kilometers of roads in Russia, I have repeatedly witnessed how these fires occur.
Somehow I got the machine to Nakhodka, a port city \u200b\u200bin Primorsky Krai near Vladivostok. Hills around the city were on fire. "Set fire to the grass to grow faster than the fern", - said Gennady, my friend sailor. Collection of ferns - for many income item in a short period of late spring - early summer ...
On the way back I stopped at a traffic police post. How much it cost me - a separate issue. I asked him about the blaze flames fields. GAI explained in its own way: "Hunters on fire to drive game." Believe in such barbarity with difficulty, but you never know ...
Often forest areas along the Far East roads are framed by bare black tree trunks. Sometimes these sites turn into swamp and the forest was no longer restored. Once under Soloviev, village Zolotorev, I had to go through the burning taiga. It was already dark, I saw the fire next to him and far ahead. Oncoming traffic was not, do not ask for kogo.Ya doubted, whether to break through the fire. In such cases the choice makes the desire to get faster.
... I drove Khabarovsk, crossed the Amur, and shortly I saw on the roadside Roadman, who had just dismounted from the bike. He set fire to dry grass near the road. Obviously the one who sent the worker to carry out this work, gave fire smart enough to be sure that the woods next he is not threatened. Khabarovsk is well aware that this turns out.
similar situation seen in the Amur region. I departed from Blagoveshchensk kilometers fifty. By the roadside stood a vehicle road service. Right beside the road started forest. Three men in orange vests carefully burned the grass along the road.
In the Amur region believe the arsons are doing in order to translate into the category of forest burnt. Usually a tree burns only bark. Who are engaged in logging, taking parts Gorelnik for rent at low cost and start cutting.
And what they say on TV? Anything. But I do not believe journalists and television do not watch.