Mikä tulva tapahtui Suomessa 2007?
Russian forest fires 2006 refers to the series of forest fires that occurred in Russia in the summer of 2006. There were an extraordinary number of forest fires: more than 23,000 separate fires. Forests burned especially in Siberia, but there were also dozens of separate fires near the Finnish border. The dry summer of that year contributed to the fires. The smoke from the fires that spread to Finland became the focus of attention, especially after the beginning of August. The smoke also spread to Sweden. In large areas in southern Finland, the air quality clearly deteriorated in some places, and smoke could easily be seen and smelled. The smoke particularly bothered some asthma patients. Russia has the airplanes needed to extinguish fires, but they were extinguishing much larger forest fires in Siberia. Russia was criticized for not trying to extinguish the fires effectively enough. According to Finnish forest research
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