On April 15, a grassy area caught fire in the village of Romanivka, Vyshhorod district, Kyiv region. Due to strong gusts of wind, the fire spread quickly and damaged buildings.
This was reported on April 15 by the State Emergency Service of the Kyiv region.
A report of a fire in the village of Romanivka on Centralnaya Street of the Polissya Territorial Community was received by the State Emergency Service at 11:06 in the morning.
“Due to strong gusts of wind, the fire quickly spread and spread to two outbuildings and the roof of an unoccupied residential building,” the report says.
It took firefighters more than three hours to extinguish the blaze. More than 2 hectares of dry land burned and three buildings were damaged by the fire.
The cause of the fire is being determined.
At the end of March, the State Emergency Service also reported that in the village of Trilisy in the Kyiv region, a 72-year-old man was burning dead wood in his own yard. Due to the strong spread of the fire, he fell into the flames and died. Also at the end of March, in the town of Skvyra in the Bila Tserkva region, an 89-year-old local resident died while burning dry grass in his garden.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 192 fires in ecosystems have been recorded in the Kyiv region, with a total of more than 111 hectares of territory burning.