Raging forest fires in the exclusion zone round Chernobyl are edging closer to the exploded nuclear reactor. Emergency workers are now desperately trying to build firebreaks around the power plant in Ukraine.
However, there are fears the flames could reach abandoned trucks and other vehicles deeply contaminated from the 1986 explosion.
An extraordinary video from firefighter Andrei Kukib shows an emergency vehicle driving through the raging fire and smoke laying waste to the polluted “dead zone”.
Fires have been blazing for nine days in the almost uninhabited 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone surrounding the disused plant.
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