Le fiamme sono state scatenate da un'ondata di caldo record

(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

A plume of smoke rises as a dry forest burns near a suburb of the town of Voronezh some 500 km (294 miles) south of Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Hundreds of new fires broke out Sunday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat.