The Ministry of Emergency Situations called the cause of the fire in the Simferopol high-rise building

CrimeaPRESS reports:

We talked about this evening fire in the Simferopol high-rise building HERE. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Crimea told the details and causes of the incident.

An alarm call about a fire in an apartment building in Simferopol on the street. Tolstoy entered on August 27, at 22:03. Eyewitnesses reported the smell of burning in the entrance and heavy smoke on one of the balconies.

Within 4 minutes after the call, the first fire brigade arrived at the scene. At this time, the balcony of the high-rise building was already on fire. In a matter of minutes, firefighters of the Russian Emergencies Ministry conducted a combat deployment and began to extinguish the fire. A man was rescued from a burning apartment. The victim was quickly handed over to the ambulance. Doctors diagnosed him with burns to his hands and carbon monoxide poisoning. In less than an hour, the fire was extinguished on an area of ​​10 square meters. meters. In the apartment, the walls in the kitchen were burned and the balcony burned out. 12 personnel and 4 units of special equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire.the emergency department said.

During the inspection, investigators of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia established that a microwave oven became the cause of the fire. As it turned out, an elderly couple was in the apartment at the time of the fire. The owner of the apartment was repairing the microwave oven. He left the faulty device plugged into the outlet on the balcony. A few hours later there was a short circuit in the electrical wiring, and the microwave caught fire. The flames spread to things stored on the balcony and quickly spread throughout the area. The owner of the apartment brought his wife out, and he himself began to put out the fire, but his attempts were unsuccessful. He survived only thanks to the promptly arrived firefighters.

Since the beginning of the year, 324 fires have occurred in Crimea due to a malfunction of electrical equipment, in which 10 people died and 13 were injured of varying severity.

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