OREANDA-NEWS. In 2007, Logging and Timber Rafting Department is planning to spend 7 mln 115,6 thousand roubles to prepare for the coming fire season. In particular, 6 mln 893,7 thousand roubles will be spent on anti-fire measures, 221,93 thousand roubles have already been spent to fill up the company’s fire fighting equipment pool.

The company has formed 44 fire brigades that employ 220 of its logging plants employees, allotted machines to be used for fire suppression, and developed a set of fire preventing and suppression measures.

Agreements have been signed with all local forestries to help extinguish fires in protection and commercial forests not leased by Logging and Timber Rafting Department. Apart from that, the company has worked out and coordinated with local forestries plans that list “Fire preventing operations for the leased forest areas” and “Fire precautions on the leased forest areas”. The plans include installing fire-hoses, equipping recreation and smoking areas, mineralized ground belts, construction and renovation of fire control roads, creating fire fighting equipment pools and other measures.

An operations fire fighting headquarters were created as part of the company, LTRD managers and experts will be providing twenty-four-hour watch both on week days and during the week-end. Every company department created a 15-day stock pile of combustives and lubricants. A mobile motorized brigade was created on the basis of road equipment shop in order to bring quick help to staff employed in fighting forest fires. The brigade has been allotted a trailer, an all-terrain bus, and a bulldozer. Equipment to be used in fire fighting operations by each department has been renovated.