Rescue work has been completed at the site of an explosion in a residential building in Sevastopol

The regional Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that emergency rescue work at the site of an explosion in a five-story residential building in Sevastopol was completed.

Emergency rescue operations were carried out in an apartment on the 1st floor, in building No. 14. They ended at 8 am. We have completed clearing the rubble. A commission is now being created that will visit apartments and assess the damage.— acting told reporters. Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Sevastopol Vladimir Shchedrin.

According to him, the first report of the fire was received at 23.40 on March 23, and within ten minutes rescuers arrived at the scene. The fire was assigned the third level of complexity.

23:54 localization of fire on an area of ​​1000 square meters. In 3 o’clock exactly the complete liquidation of the consequences of the fire“, the interlocutor said, noting that the deceased was in house No. 14, precisely in the apartment where the rubble was being cleared.

The source of the fire will be determined by specialists; the explosion previously occurred in the apartment that was located above the commercial office, above the delivery point, Shchedrin specified.

I can say for sure that 10 apartments burned out from the fire,” he added, specifying that in total between 30 and 60 apartments were damaged.

REFERENCE: Emergency happened on Tuesday night. At 00:29, the regional governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev, reported that an explosion occurred in the house on Pavel Korchagin Street, 14. There was a partial collapse of a wall in one of the apartments on the 1st floor and internal ceilings and structures from the 1st to 3rd floors. In a neighboring building, apartments in two entrances caught fire. People were evacuated from two houses.

At the same time, completely excluded version of a domestic gas explosion in collapsed high-rise buildingthe governor added.

The owner of the apartment where the explosion occurred died, her son, born in 2006, is listed as missing. Total suffered 13 people.