socialbites.ca correspondent witnessed the fire at the Satire Theater while going to the play “The Paths That Choose Us” with his family.
“We arrived early, around eleven o’clock, and decided to wander around the theatre. Firefighters and ambulances started arriving before we entered. Then we went to a cafe in the theater building; we drank coffee, thought it was a minor thing and would be fixed immediately, and we would continue watching the show anyway. Then the lights in the cafe were turned off and it became clear that everything was serious,” the reporter said.
Later, around 12:00, a firefighter came to the cafe of the Satire Theater and asked everyone to leave the building. When the girl left the building, she found that the entire theater was cordoned off. She tried to find out if the show would be postponed, but no one was allowed into the building.
“We walked to the Oktyabr cinema to watch The Master and Margarita,” the reporter summarized.
Before that, he was at the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia statedThe area of the fire in the Satire Theater increased to 350 square meters. 50 people were evacuated from the building.
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