Witnessing a pipe burst in downtown St. Petersburg resident Anna told socialbites.ca that the Ministry of Emergencies carried a woman on her lap who could not get to her car from boiling water.
“We calmly walk with my daughter from the Smolny Cathedral, we plan to cross the road with a steaming stream of water. I begin to explain to my daughter how to behave in such situations. I turn and there it is. He quickly considered whether it was necessary to call someone, but the man had already called. Well done guys, Ministry of Emergencies! They even carried my aunt to the car. It was on the side where the fountain hit, and there was a car on the opposite side. And somehow he got to the men, apparently handing them the keys. They started to drive this car, then they drove. They gave him the keys and apparently said to them: “How do I get past this whole thing?” And the guys had already driven the car to Suvorovsky, that is, one of the rescuers got behind the wheel, and then the woman was taken directly to the car on her lap, as everything was in boiling water, ”the woman said.
Anna added that there was “a lot of steam” outside and that a water jet hit the walls and windows of a nearby second-floor building. Noting that she did not see the victims, the woman said, “Would the windows break from such water pressure” and that she did not know what was going on inside the apartments.
Earlier, a video appeared on the network about how boiling water gushed from the ground due to a broken pipe on the 5th Sovetskaya Street in St. Petersburg. With data Traffic between 4th and 6th Soviet streets along “Fontanki”, Degtyarnaya Street is limited.
How reported Petersburg Heating Network specialists are now closing the emergency section, pipes will be replaced “to prevent a more serious technological violation.”