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Death toll from Russian wildfires reaches 40 (AP)

A firefighter works to extinguish fire in a pine forest outside Voronezh, August 2, 2010. President Dmitry Medvedev declared a state of emergency in seven of Russia's 83 regions due to wildfires. REUTERS/Sergei KarpukhinAP - The death toll from wildfires raging across central and western Russia rose to 40 on Monday, as millions of Muscovites coughed through a haze of smoke from burning peat bogs and firefighters scrambled to put out hundreds of new blazes.


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