Irpin volunteers have been fighting other communities’ fires for a second week, under the threat of repeat strikes [photos]

The volunteer civil defence unit of the Irpin community has been clearing the aftermath of Russian attacks outside its own community for a second week running.

Anzhela Makeieva, acting mayor of Irpin, described their work.

After the latest strikes the Irpin crews were among the first to reach Vyshneve and the village of Myla. Together with the state emergency service they worked where fires were still burning, cleared rubble and helped evacuate people.

Фото: Ірпінська міська рада

The work is dangerous: Russia deliberately strikes again at places where rescuers are already working. Such attacks kill and wound the very people who came to save others.

Фото: Ірпінська міська рада

The community sends not only people but its own equipment to the clean-up.

Irpin is not only a town that once held out. It is a community that today has the strength to help others.

Anzhela Makeievaacting mayor of Irpin

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Photo: Irpin city council

Crews run hose lines beside a fire tanker at the scene

Photo: Irpin city council

Night work: crews at a fire tanker in the glow of the blaze

Photo: Irpin city council

A drinking-water tanker supplies the pumping unit

Photo: Irpin city council

Unit vehicles and fire engines on the approach road to the fire

Photo: Irpin city council

Smoke covers the yard where fire crews are working

Photo: Irpin city council

Hoses run from a heavy state rescue tanker to the unit's vehicle

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As a reminder, 455 people and 115 machines worked on the clean-up in Myla.

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