Lviv region: 2 registered
peat fires on August 5 at 8:43 to Rescue « 101 » nadiyshlopovidomlennya with. Sokal district there was nowhere peat burning in the open in a separate cells. As of 20:30 combustion eliminated on the area of ??0.5 hectares. On the same day at 12:03 it was reported that in the village. Bolozheniv BuskDistrict emerged burning peat and leaf litter. As of 20:00 combustion eliminated on the area of ??120 sq.m .. Peat burns slowly in the depth of its occurrence. Peat fires often cover large areas and difficult to extinguish when the burning peat layer of considerable thickness. Peat can burn across the board, regardless of the direction and strength of the wind, and piA ground it burns even during moderate rain and snowfall. Peat fires are moving slowly, several meters a day, and highlights the fact that they are almost impossible to extinguish. They are dangerous sudden breakthroughs fire from the ground and the fact that their land is not always visible. Sign underground peat fires are characteristic smell of burning, sometimes with impressed withemli seeping smoke, and the earth is hot. Peat burns inside, forming voids, which can fail and burn. The temperature in the layer of peat, the fire covered more than a thousand degrees. Keep peat fire alone is not recommended. The best party around it, moving against the wind, so that it will not have caught up with fire and smoke and no nereshkodzhav target areas. One must carefully inspect the road in front of him, probing her Tychyna or stick. The best way to fight peat fires is considered to prevent them.Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/