Even school children are in firefighting brigades in some areas of Yakutia.
The lengthy wildfire season follows a record-hot Arctic summer. People living in Yakutsk are waking up to heavy smog brought from the wildfires raging to the west, east and north; struggling to breathe and with head, eye and throat aches.
Wildfires ablaze early in year due to lack of snow, posing threat to railway in Russian Far East.
