Hero staff of Blagoveschensk cardio centre had just cut open the patient’s chest when a major fire began.
At least three are dangerously close to population centres in Irkutsk region.
He spoke out as Premier Dmitry Medvedev was in Siberia on a trip substantially aimed at leading efforts to combat the serious forest fires.
Blazes raging just 50km from the Arctic Ocean in Yakutia.
Victims burned to death while fighting blaze after three massive explosions.
All residents 'safely evacuated' as the tower was engulfed in flames.
Global warming spells doom for boreal forests with potentially dramatic implications for carbon release in dark taiga.
With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.
Charred corpses removed from wreckage in Kemerovo with evidence that victims were trapped inside by locked fire doors.