Five Chernobyl fires are extinguished in the Chernobyl area – rescuers

In the Chernobyl area, the fires are extinguished in the Korogodsky, Lubyansk, Paryshevsky, Dityatkovsky and Denysovichi territory, the State Emergency Service reported.

The main effort is to locate four steaming hemp centers, wood debris, and two peat bogs in the cells that pass by the fire.

There are no threats to the shelter facility, radiation storage facility and other critical facilities in the exclusion zone, rescuers say.

The radiation background in Kyiv and the Kyiv region is within the normal range and does not exceed the natural background values.

In the Zhitomir region, separate grassy and hemp-covered areas are extinguished on the territory of four forest farms near Ovruch and Slovnochny. Nine combustion cells remain. Of these, five are localized and work to “limit their distribution” continues in four small cells.

Fires in the Chernobyl area broke out on April 4. On April 14, authorities said the fire had been extinguished, in part by rain. Extinction of individual smoking areas is ongoing.

On April 16, the State Emergency Service reported that in the Chernobyl area, due to strong gusts of wind, the situation became more complicated in the afternoon. There are three new dormant cells that “are not large-scale and non-threatening.”

For 10 days, hundreds of Ukrainian firefighters fought a fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Environmentalists have warned that the fire could pollute the air and spew ash from one of the worst nuclear accidents in the world.