MOSCOW. Nov 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Airplanes belonging to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry have finished putting out forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, the ministry's spokesman Viktor Beltsov told Interfax on Wednesday.
"An aircraft group of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry made up of two Be-200 amphibious airplanes have completed efforts to extinguish major wildfires on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. It relocated to Kalimantan Island at 9:00 a.m. Moscow time (0600 GMT) on Wednesday," he said.
Russia's Beriev Be-200 planes arrived at Sumatra on October 30, he added.
"These special-purpose fire-fighting airplanes belonging to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry helped considerably stabilize the situation with forest fires on Sumatra Island. The Russian pilots' work on Sumatra has won applause from the local authorities," Beltsov said.