Every spring here in Albuquerque the bosque catches fire a couple times. Some years are worse than others. At this point the actual property damage tends to be fairly low. The fire department has gotten rather good at dealing with it. That said, more than once has Albuquerque lay hidden under the pall of smoke from the river, very much like the third picture in this thread. Only our river isn’t nearly that nice.

I can only hope the actual property damage and loss of life is at a minimum in Russia.