No Relief In Sight
The mayor of Yakutsuk told citizens to stay indoors over the weekend. Residents of the city of more than 280,000 told news outlets they were having trouble breathing and seeing, and their clothing and the air smelled of smoke.
“We can’t see each other because of the smoke, our eyes are burning and overall the smoke is very dangerous for the health of us villagers,” Vasiliy Krivoshapkin, who lives in the town of Magaras, told the AP. “We see on television planes that are dropping water on the burning forest but they aren’t sending these planes to help us for some reason. Why is there no help?”
