The fire at a pyrotechnic warehouse on the Luzhnetskaya embankment in the center of Moscow has been completely eliminated, the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow reported. It took four hours to extinguish.
“At 21:29 Moscow time, the fire was extinguished,” said a spokesman for the TASS department. Information about the fire was received by the department at 17:36.
Three helicopters and a fire boat “Colonel Chernyshev” were involved in the extinguishing. The helicopters made 83 water drops. The total area of the fire was 500 sq. meters. Three firefighters and one warehouse employee were injured. The warehouse contained 15 tons of explosives in the form of household pyrotechnics. The warehouse belongs to an individual entrepreneur. A TASS source claims that, according to preliminary data, the fire occurred due to a short circuit in the power grid.
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