Large Fire Burns 1,100 Hectares in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

A major wildfire has consumed 1,100 hectares of forest and wetlands within the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the restricted area surrounding the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. Wind and dry conditions are complicating firefighting efforts in the contaminated zone, though authorities report radiation levels remain within normal limits despite the blaze affecting the radioactive landscape around the defunct nuclear power plant.