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Firefighters battle forest fires, heatwave continues in Moscow

(29 Jul 2010) Shatura District, 160 kilometres east of Moscow 1. Various of smouldering peat-bog and forest 2. Various of flames 3. Pan of fireman hosing down area 4. Close up of water spray 5. Wide of fire engine 6. Wide of firemen 7. Close up of fire 8. Various of firemen 9. Firemen by truck 10. SOUNDBITE (russian) Yaroslav Shatayev, fireman: "This happens because of people being careless with fire. Forests burn, the earth burns, even tractors at times disappear into the ground - there have been cases of this. Open fires only happen when the flames reach the trees and they catch fire. Usually it burns under the ground. And in order to put it out we need to spray water through hoses back and forth over the ground. This is the way to gradually extinguish hotbeds of fire. It takes a very long time to eliminate these sources of fire." 12. Wide of smouldering ground Moscow 13. Various of children bathing in fountain water by the Kremlin walls 14. Wide shot of Moscow street 15. Wide of Moscow Central Telegraph building 16. Wide of digital thermometer reading 38 degrees celsius (100 degrees fahrenheit) 17. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vita Shashkina, office worker: "It's very hard to cope with this weather. We want rain. I've heard that it will become 10 degrees cooler so that the temperature will go down to 31 degrees so I'm waiting desperately for this." 18. Wide of people in the street STORYLINE: Moscow has broken its all-time temperature record for the second time in a week as the Russian capital sizzles in a stubborn heatwave. The mercury hit 100 degrees fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius) on Thursday, beating by a fraction a record set on Monday, the country's news agencies reported. Muscovites have been urged to skip work and stay indoors due to the heat and potentially dangerous smog from peat bog fires outside the city. Forest fires too continue to burn around Moscow and the rest of the country, with firefighters battling a total area of 212,506 acres (86,000 hectares) ablaze, the Emergencies Ministry said on its website. Find out more about AP Archive:   aparchive.com/howwework   Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive:   aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a717a41e7f3...