The key facts

  • The fire occurred on November 9 in a building on Ochakovo Highway, 17, block 2; two people died, one victim was handed over to medics
  • 15 residents evacuated on their own, four, including two children, were rescued by firefighters
  • The cause of the fire will be established by expert examination; the inquiry is overseen by the interdistrict prosecutor's office

Fire on Ochakovo Highway

On November 9, one of the apartments caught fire in a nine-story residential building on Ochakovo Highway in the Ochakovo-Matveyevskoye district in western Moscow. According to preliminary data from the capital's emergency services, cited by Life.ru, two people died in the fire; preliminarily, one of the victims was an elderly woman. Fire and rescue units brought five residents out of the building, among whom, according to media reports, were two children.

Data from the Emergency Ministry and the Prosecutor's Office

The press service of the Moscow Office of the Emergencies Ministry clarified the details: the fire report came in from the address Ochakovo Highway, building 17, block 2. Before the firefighters arrived, 15 people left the building on their own, and four more, including two children, were evacuated by firefighters. The agency confirmed the deaths of two people and reported that one victim was handed over to medics; the fire was extinguished. Thus, the figures on the number of rescued differ between the services' reports and the media: the Emergencies Ministry speaks of four evacuated, while the news agency says five.

Investigation and a previous case

The exact cause of the fire, as noted by the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, will be determined based on the results of a fire-technical expert examination. The course and results of the procedural inquiry into the incident are being overseen by the interdistrict prosecutor's office.

A similar case a week earlier

This is already the second such incident in Moscow in a matter of days: on November 4, on Kosmonavt Volkov Street in the north of the capital, a bed caught fire in an eighth-floor apartment, and the room filled with smoke. Firefighters carried out two residents, but they could not be saved. In both fires, two people died; the final causes of the fires in both cases have yet to be established by expert examination.