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Forest fires cover Moscow in smoke
MOSCOW, Russia --Doctors are urging Muscovites to stay indoors to avoid heavy white smoke from scores of forest fires stoked by a record heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters, using helicopters, planes and dozens of fire engines, are battling to control flames racing across about 300 hectares (740 acres) of woodland south of the Russian capital.
At least 119 peat fires were ablaze in the Moscow region on Wednesday, up from 76 the day before, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Normally only a handful of such fires are reported each summer.
The army was helping firefighters and volunteers in Shatura, a town southeast of Moscow that has been particularly badly affected.
Moscow's ambulance service said about 5,900 people suffering from the effects of the smog, expected to choke the city for another five days, had called for urgent help over the past 24 hours.
Igor Elkis, head of the ambulance service, said people with respiratory problems or heart disease were most at risk.
"We have told people to take their regular medication, to stay home if possible and to hang wet sheets by their windows," he told Reuters.
Weather forecasters said toxic fumes were well above safety limits.
"We have registered levels of nitrogen dioxide up to three times the norm, and carbon monoxide up to twice the norm," a spokeswoman for the Meteorology Office said.
"For a big city, that is nothing extreme yet. It becomes an emergency when we have quantities that are 20 times the norm."
Forecasters said the heatwave would continue until the weekend, with maximum temperatures about 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit).
"On Saturday we could see some showers, which could help clean the air, but the situation will not change radically," Alexander Lyakhov, head of the Meteorology Office, told Russian television.
This summer has been one of Moscow's hottest since records began in 1870, with temperatures hovering about 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) for all of July.
Elsewhere in Russia about 110,000 hectares were ablaze, with the Far Eastern regions of Yakutia and Kamchatka among the worst hit.