OREANDA-NEWS. August 9, 2010. Russian EMERCOM Ministry continues fighting forest fires. Aviation is the main toolof the ministry in fire extinguishing. However it is hard to find new fire spots due to deep smoke. According to ERERCOM Head Sergey Shoighu, advanced technologies help coping with this problem.

Special GLONASS-based equipment has been applied this week to look for the fires, which are then extinguished by brigades in Be-200 airplanes, even with zero-visibility. Thus, multiple fires became the reason to test the capabilities of the Russian navigation system.