Lecture at the exercise of Volunteer Forest Firefighters

Girl on fire exercise

Fire exercise

The girl goes into the fire during the exercises under the supervision of an instructor

Training fire

Firefighters lay out and check the sleeves

Grigory Kuksin, head of the fire department of the Russian branch of Greenpeace

Extinguishing a peat bog

Firemen after extinguishing

Firefighter carries sleeves to the water

Peat fire

Peat bogs. Firefighters scout and find peat burning underground

Small flashes of fire at the edge are trampled under foot

To break through to peat bogs, firefighters have to cut through the fallen trees and pour tons of water into the smoking peat to prevent the fire from spreading

A peat fire readily spreads to the trees and turns into a forest fire. The flame climbs the trunks of young pines, firs, birches and creeps higher and further

Smoke from peat fires spreads to all nearby settlements

Large fires are extinguished using aviation and special equipment

The fire spreads through the grass and captures huge areas

Fighting a fire from the air

Silhouettes of burnt trees in smoke

The spread of peat fire

Extinguishing a peat fire

Extinguishing in the smoke of peat bogs

National parks are gradually burning out. Fire creeps along the ground and leaves behind only the ghostly silhouettes of dead trees

Greenpeace fireman extinguishing a peat bog

Peat fire

Firefighters in smoke from peat fires