Residents of the village of Sosva have been losing their homes to forest fires for years. In the most recent major incident in April, a wildfire destroyed 130 houses, killed two individuals and left 659 people homeless in this village in the Sverdlovsk region.
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At least one person was killed and hundreds of people were left homeless when a major fire swept through a village just east of Russia's Urals mountains.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and more than 178 buildings were destroyed in fires raging through Russia's Sverdlovs.
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