A five-story building caught fire in Novovyatsk: 12 residents were evacuated.

A five-story building caught fire in Novovyatsk: 12 residents were evacuated.

      The Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Kirov Region reported on today's fire.

      Photo: The Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Kirov Region

      Today at half past four the Ministry of Emergency Situations received a report of a fire in a five-story building on Pushkin Street in Novovyatsk. Sixteen employees of the Ministry and the regional fire-rescue service were dispatched to the scene. Seven vehicles were involved.

      Firefighters evacuated 12 residents. Fortunately, no one was injured.

      By five o'clock the open flames had been extinguished. In one of the one-room apartments the walls, floor, ceiling and belongings were burned. The stair landing was also sooted.

      The suspected cause of the fire is the owner's carelessness while cooking on an electric hot plate.

      In the Zuyevsky District a house caught fire; in Murashi — an apartment.

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A five-story building caught fire in Novovyatsk: 12 residents were evacuated.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Kirov Region reported on today's fire.