Wildfires in Russia’s Siberia might put a power facility in jeopardy.

Russia has been ravaged by forest fires, which have been blamed on exceptionally high temperatures and a disregard for fire safety regulations.

Local officials reported a big wildfire was blazing near a town in Russia’s Siberia region on Monday, presenting a danger to a hydroelectric power plant.

According to the area’s Ministry of Natural Resources, 216 forest fires were still burning in the Sakha-Yakutia region of northern Siberia on Monday morning. More than 60 cities, towns, and villages, including the regional capital Yakutsk, were blanketed in thick smoke.

According to the government, one conflagration that had already devoured 41,300 hectares was only four kilometers from the settlement of Syuldyukar. The town is roughly 20 kilometers distant from a hydroelectric power facility, according to the report.

The firefighting activities in the area have enlisted the help of almost 2,000 individuals.

Russia has been ravaged by forest fires, which have been blamed on exceptionally high temperatures and a disregard for fire safety regulations.

Because of the smoke-filled sky, the airport in Yakutsk stopped flights into and out of the city on Sunday, but it reopened on Monday.