The key facts
- Fire in an apartment on the second floor of a building on Uralskaya Street in Moscow, one person killed
- Rescuers brought out an eight-year-old child and an adult; ten people saved in total
- Neighbors reported shouting and swearing in the apartment shortly before the fire; cause not established
Fire in eastern Moscow
A fire broke out in an apartment building on Uralskaya Street in eastern Moscow. According to the SHOT telegram channel, flames engulfed an apartment on the second floor. Rescuers brought an eight-year-old child and an adult out of the burning apartment; paramedics are examining the evacuees, and no information about their condition has been received yet.
Victim and evacuation
Firefighters found the body of a person in the burning apartment. Rescuers also evacuated residents from other units of the high-rise building — ten people in total were saved from the building.
Circumstances and cause
According to neighbors, shortly before the fire, shouting and swearing could be heard from the apartment, and soon after that the fire started. Specialists have not yet established the cause of the incident.
Similar case in Buryatia
Earlier, on the night of October 20, a woman died in a fire in a residential house in the village of Poselye in Buryatia, and her two children were taken to hospital. A neighbor was the first to notice the fire; he entered the house and handed the children through the window to his wife, but could not find the mother due to heavy smoke. Firefighters who arrived found the woman, who had died from poisoning by combustion products. Investigators have preliminarily established that the fire originated in a residential annex; specialists consider a short circuit in the electrical wiring one of the possible causes.
