A fire is raging dangerously close to Russia's main nuclear research centre in Sarov and has now grown to an area of 1,000 hectares. Thousands of firefighters have been sent to a nature reserve near the facility as officials warned on Friday that the blaze was continuing to spread. Russia's wildfires, which began late last month amid a record heatwave, have so far left more than 50 people dead. "The fire which appeared in the eastern part of the nature reserve two days ago after lightning struck a pine tree has grown in size and now presents a certain danger," Major General Vyacheslav Kormilitsyn, the head of the emergencies ministry for the Mordovia region, said. The national emergencies ministry said that more than 500 fires covering just under 65,000 hectares of land were still ablaze across Russia, down 15,000 hectares from the day earlier.
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