Moscow and Wildfires
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Moscow deaths double amid smog to 700 people a day (August 9, 2010)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/world/article_213a31c4-2a93-5156-b0d3-ce1c780f63a8.html
Deaths in Moscow have doubled to an average of 700 people a day as the Russian capital is engulfed by poisonous smog from wildfires and a sweltering heat wave, a top health official said Monday.
...About 550 separate blazes were burning nationwide Monday, mainly across western Russia, including about 40 around Moscow, according to the Emergencies Ministry. Forest and peat bog fires have been triggered by the most intense heat wave in 130 years of record keeping.
Anyone here in Moscow? Are things improving at all?
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