Amid Heat and Smoke, Deaths Double in Moscow. By Andrew E. Kramer, NYTimes, August 10, 2010. "The daily mortality rate here has nearly doubled in recent days, the city's chief health official said Monday, singling out the heat as the primary factor and not the culprit most people here suspected: the choking cloud of wildfire smoke... To the east of the capital, meanwhile, Russian officials were compelled to declare a state of emergency at a nuclear research center, Snezhinsk in the Ural Mountains, where the surrounding forests were dry and fire-prone. Earlier this month, they had cautioned that fires might stir up fallout from Chernobyl if they burned into contaminated areas, potentially lacing the smoke with radioactive particles."
2010-08-16
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