Ivan, an eyewitness to the explosion in a multi-storey building in Nizhny Novgorod, told socialbites.ca that the apartment was completely engulfed in fire. According to the information obtained, the explosion wave threw glass pieces and balcony pieces into the neighboring house. He noted that one of the victims was severely burned.
“I was in the house opposite when the explosion happened. It was so loud that the alarms of almost all the cars in the garden started ringing, at the same time I looked out the window and saw thick, black smoke coming out of the windows of the house opposite, and tongues of flame had already formed behind it. It started to explode. I immediately called 112, then moved to the house where the explosion occurred. Already on the approaches to the house it became clear that the apartment was completely engulfed in fire, the balcony was almost torn off and held on to the word of honor, shards of glass and large pieces of the balcony were still flying out of the apartment. The fire brigade had not yet arrived at that time. Shards of glass and pieces of balconies were literally thrown towards another house. While the windows adjacent to the epicenter of the explosion were also broken, smoke began to come out from the neighboring balcony. “I saw how firefighters executed a man, he was badly burned, I can’t say anything about the other victims, I didn’t see them,” he said.
Ivan noted that the residents of the house tried to extinguish the fire themselves with snow and water. According to him, after the first explosion, several more explosions were heard.
“The neighbors upstairs threw snow on the open fires and tried to fill them with water. “After the first explosion, I heard several more explosions for about 10 minutes, but it was not as loud as if small balls of gas were exploding,” he concluded.
On March 19, an explosion occurred in an apartment of a multi-storey building in the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, followed by a fire. According to the statement made by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters who came to the scene saved 12 people, including 3 children, from the fire. It was stated that the fire engulfed 40 square meters of an apartment on the 5th floor of a nine-storey building. It was liquidated. 167 people were evacuated via a flight of stairs. 5 people, including 3 children, were injured in the accident.
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