Death toll climbs as Russia forest fires spread (AFP)

A woman sits surrounded by the remains of her house in the village of Mokhovoye, some 130 kilometers from Moscow on July 31, 2010. Thousands of firefighters, including soldiers, battled forest fires raging across central Russia in the worst heatwave for decades.(AFP/Artyom Korotayev)AFP - Firefighters on Sunday pressed on with battling forest fires that have killed at least 30 people, destroyed thousands of homes and forced the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of emergency workers.