Impressive fire in Moscow: a pyrotechnic factory exploded

Factory fire in Russia

A fierce fire It happened on Saturday in a fireworks warehouse in central Moscow, the capital of Russia. The deputy mayor of the Russian capital, Pyotr Biriukov, said 3 firefighters and a warehouse worker were injured. According to his statements, 15 tons of fireworks were in the building.

A source from the Russian news agency TASS reported that the fire has spread to a neighboring building. The affected area was 150 square meters. However, less than an hour later, emergency services reported that reaches 500 square meters.

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Several helicopters were used to extinguish the fire. Vehicle traffic was limited near the fire, the causes of which are still unknown. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported that “A one-story building is on fire”, without specifying that it was a pyrotechnic plant.

The Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate partially restricted movement in the fire zone for the passage of special equipment. “On the Luzhnetskaya embankment (No. 2/4) there is a fire in the pyrotechnic warehouse. Road patrol service teams were dispatched to the scene. In this section, traffic restrictions are introduced in two of the three lanes in each direction. This is necessary for the passage of special equipment and the elimination of the fire source, ”the State Road Safety Inspectorate of the Main Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry in Moscow said on Twitter.

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The fire was classified in the third level of difficulty, out of the five possible in the categories used in Russia. In various videos circulating on social networks, in addition to an imposing column of smoke you can hear the fireworks explosions.

Fire and rescue of three children

Dramatic footage shows how the neighbors They became heroes by climbing a 10-meter waste pipe and make a human chain to save three young children from a devastating fire in Russia.

Three men climbed the pipe of a building, passing a girl and two boys one after the other through the window of their burning apartment on the third floor.

It happened in Russia.

Locked inside, boys, less than 10 years, they were ready to jump out the window when the men went down the drain to save them. A fourth man on the ground grabbed them as they passed. The neighbors also saved the family’s cat, Pushok.

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The man who took the children out the window is called Stanislav Smirnov, 40 years. forwarded them to Dhamal Gassoyan, 35, who says: “I saw that the children were about to jump. “We put the drain hose back up and took it out in turn. Then I saw that there was a cat left on the floor. So I went upstairs to save the cat. “