10:05 02.07.2015

Large-scale grass fire near Chornobyl NPP in Ukraine contained

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Large-scale grass fire near Chornobyl NPP in Ukraine contained

The burning of grass in the territory of the Chornobyl forest preserve has been contained, head of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service Mykola Chechotkin has announced.

"The burning of the grass cover has been contained in all the six seats in the territory of the Chornobyl forest preserve, namely near the communities of Kovshylivka, Poliske, Hlynka, Stara Krasnytsia, Lubyanka and Bychky," he wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

"In the area of Poliske and Bychky our units are putting out fire on individual sections of grass cover within a controlled perimeter," he said.

Chechotkin also wrote that four seats of smoldering peat are being extinguished in the area of Hlynka, Lubyanka and Kovshylivka.

The fire is not spreading to the woodlands, he said.

It was reported earlier that dry grass and club rush caught fire near the communities of Kovshylivka and Poliske within the Chornobyl exclusion zone on the evening of June 29. The fire gradually spread onto a territory of about 130 hectares.

The closest seat of fire is 30 kilometers away from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

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