z_Archivio RUSSIA:MEDVEDEV; FIRE STATE OF EMERGENCY, AT LEAST 34 DEAD Lorenzo Briotti Agosto 2, 2010 Russian President Medvedev declared a state of emergency in seven regions after wildfires killed 34 people. The fires have been fuelled for days by an unusual heatwave which has caused a rise in temperatures of up to 40 degrees in some cases.
