Elena, a resident of the city of Novomoskovsk in the Tula region, where the heating was turned off due to an accident at the power plant, told socialbites.ca that the radiators in the apartment began to cool down the night before. According to him, the two heaters could not cope with the cold in the apartment and the family had to go to relatives.
“The batteries started to cool down around 21:00, that’s when I returned home from work. The temperature in the apartment was 14 ° C, two heaters did not help, I had to go to relatives where the weather was hot. It is not possible to be in this situation with three children. “I plan not to take my children to kindergarten or school,” she said.
Another resident of the city, Oksana, told socialbites.ca that in the morning the temperature in the apartment began to drop.
“The house has central heating, two gas stoves, the house is old, the first floor. There are four children at home, three of whom are three years old, two years old and seven months old. Everyone is dressed warmly; the door of one room was closed to keep the apartment warm. “Before that, everything was fine, but in the morning it started to get cold, our house is already old, it can barely heat up,” he explained.
Oksana noted in the conversation at the kindergarten, where there was no heating, that parents were asked to bring their children in warm clothes and pick them up early “because the group would be cold.”
“We are on sick leave, the children were sick before, now our house is cold. “However, some parents said they would not bring them to school,” he said.
Another resident of Novomoskovsk, Elena, said that even before the accident at the power plant in the provincial district, the batteries in her apartment were “not much hotter.”
“Tonight I woke up, the room was very cold, I touched the radiators and it was a little warm; corner flat, walls were cold, air was blowing. I turn on the oven, there’s an electric rug on the wall, I walk around dressed and save myself. “Before the failure, the batteries were not getting very hot,” he concluded.
On January 14, the government of the Tula region reported that heat supply to 372 apartment buildings, 10 schools, 16 kindergartens and one hospital in Novomoskovsk was limited due to an accident at the state district power plant. This was due to the failure of the high voltage input of the transformer switch at a local power plant.
Previously, there were 282 apartment buildings in Lipetsk stayed No heating or hot water.