Mr. Amper said the county should take «proactive» steps to reduce
wildfires by
burning roughly 1,000 acres over the course
of the year in smaller fires to prevent massive fires from swelling
out of control.
The heat stoked
wildfires that continue to
burn out of control and have overwhelmed the country's firefighters, while an unparalleled drought withered crops so severely that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin took the radical step
of banning all grain exports.