Fire on the street in Moscow Kotlakovsky extinguished – BBC News

almost six hours needed firemen to extinguish a large fire in the industrial building in the south of Moscow. As the representative of the Moscow TASS Main Emergency Management Nikolai Smirnov, “at 23:33 Moscow time the fire in the one-story building on the street Kotlakovsky liquidated.” No one was injured.

The message about the fire at Kotlakovsky arrived at 17:49, after six minutes arrived at the scene first fire rescue units. In total, the fire was extinguished about 40 units of fire-rescue total of more than 120 people.

The area of ​​the fire initially was 500 square meters, then doubled. The fire, which was awarded the third category of complexity at the maximum five, there was an explosion struck the wall and the roof partially. The total area of ​​collapse was 800 square meters. According to preliminary information, inside the building were gas cylinders, which periodically explode.

Because of the fire and smoke forced the evacuation of 30 people from the neighboring buildings, and the glow from the fire could be seen within a radius of tens of kilometers from the place of incident.

In total for Monday, November 24, in the capital, there were three major fires. In addition to the fire on the day on Kotlakovsky Perovskoy street in the east of Moscow there was a fire on the territory of the pilot plant engineering – fire engulfed an area of ​​2000 square meters, there was a partial collapse of the building. A night in the alley in the center of Moscow Chernyshevsky burned branch of Moscow State Museum named Esenina. Old wooden building which is under construction, partially collapsed. The total area of ​​the fire of 1500 square meters.

In the Moscow Department of Culture said that the manor outbuilding, where he will be a branch of the Museum of Esenina, fire does not hurt. “Manor Wing Lane in Chernyshevsky passed under the organization of the branch of the Museum Esenina few years ago, miraculously not damaged by fire in the manor itself – it is just a few meters,” – said the spokesperson of the Department Alla Semenysheva. According to her, this year a draft adaptation of the building into a museum, and all work at the facility should begin in the next year. Museum collections were not there.