article_snippet.sent: to hospital, TASS news agency reported, as fires raged across .
article_snippet.sent: grasslands in dry and windy weather over several days.
article_snippet.sent: homes have been damaged or destroyed and some cattle have been . killed, Zimin said.
article_snippet.sent: Wildfires in Russia often start when locals set grass on .
article_snippet.sent: fire on rolling fields to clean them up after the winter, a .
article_snippet.sent: widespread practice criticised by environmentalists as well as .
article_snippet.sent: Wildfires in the hot summer of 2010 caused dozens of deaths . in Russia.
article_snippet.sent: Some scientists and environmentalists suggest the . number of indirect deaths caused by the heat wave and wildfires .