09:26, 06 May 2009 | GMT +5
35 buildings burned in Kostroma village, eight of them homes
MOSCOW. May 6. KAZINFORM Thirty-five buildings were ruined by a dry grass fire in the Mikhailovtsy village of the Kostroma region, but only eight of them were homes, Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.

Eighteen people were resettled. No one was hurt, the representative added. ?The fire is contained but not put down. Professional and amateur fire fighters are working on the location,? the source said.
Similar accidents have been reported from the Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Ryazan, Tver and Moscow regions. The largest fire of them occurred on the Orenburg outskirts ? 14 homes burned down, two people died and about 90 were left homeless, Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.