On June 30, Sunday, firefighters received a message about a fire that occurred on a wheat field in the urban-type settlement Novovorontsovka. The press service of the State Emergencies Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region informs about this.
By the forces of the rescue team, the fire on the field with cereals was localized and extinguished. Firefighters prevented the spread of flame to the remainder of the grain crop, thereby saving about 30 hectares of wheat from death.
The fire managed to absorb 4.5 hectares of wheat on the vine. Since the beginning of the harvesting campaign, a total of 6 cases of fire in grain fields of 25 ha were recorded in the Kherson region.
We will remind that in the Nikolaev area rescuers extinguished fires in wheat fields twice a day. Near Mariupol, unknown persons have already committed several arson attacks on the fields of the local farm. The first time the farmer's fields burned back in 2018.
Who exactly harms the economy has not yet been established. And in the Poltava region due to abnormal heat, fires in the fields and in ecosystems are observed more often.
Rescuers themselves believe that many incidents could have been avoided if citizens had behaved correctly with fire. Most of the fires in the area arose due to the careless handling of fire.