Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations successfully extinguished a fire in an eight-storey residential building in the Ezhvinsky district of Syktyvkar. The ministry reported that the fire was completely extinguished. Telegram-channel.
According to the statement made by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Komi Republic, the fire started at 21.30 Moscow time in an apartment on the fifth floor. The fire then spread to the balconies on the fifth and eighth floors. As a result, EMERCOM employees rescued 10 people living in the building and evacuated 90 people. 3 of those rescued were handed over to medical teams for treatment.
While the cause of the fire has not yet been determined, the investigation continues. The area where the fire initially occurred amount to 170 square meters.
More than 60 people and 29 equipment, including 11 tankers and 2 ladder trucks, participated in extinguishing the fire.
Also tonight caught fire Russian State Library in the center of Moscow. According to the Shot Telegram channel, the protective structure of the statue on the roof of the building was on fire. According to preliminary data, repair work was going on there and the builders did not turn off the heater. There was no loss of life as a result of the incident.
Previously there was an irrigation machine in the Leningrad region caught fire on the way.