EMERCOM task forces involved in ammo firefighting back to bases

MOSCOW, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The EMERCOM task force, including the
aviation, have completed a firefighting operation at an ammunition depot
in Udmurtia, a source in the information department of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
"An EMERCOM airplane Il-76 arrived at 6.07 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday
from Udmurtia at the Moscow regional airfield Ramenskoye. The airplane
brought the Leader emergency task force and firefighting robots back to
Moscow," the source said.
"The EMERCOM task forces came back to their permanent bases," the
source added.
Open fires were put down, a source in the Volga regional EMERCOM
center told Itar-Tass earlier. The fire situation is under control. "The
chief of the Volga regional EMERCOM center Lieut. Gen. Igor Panshin and
military officials signed a report of transfer of extinguished sections of
the ammunition depot," the source said.
The military forces took the ammunition depot under control, the
source noted.
The military township and the technical zone of the ammunition depot
were being searched through for any explosive objects in a field
engineering reconnaissance mission. Some 740 highly explosive objects have
been found for the past day. The found unexploded ammunition will be
destroyed at a special place cleaned up at the ammunition depot.
"The EMERCOM robots have completed their mission and will be withdrawn
within 24 hours. The EMERCOM aviation also completed its mission. The
EMERCOM aviation has made 178 water discharges, dropping 2,204 tonnes of
water on the fires," the source said.
A major fire, which triggered the detonation of hundreds of shells at
the 102nd ammunition depot in the village of Pugachevo in Udmurtia, broke
out overnight to June 3.