On Wednesday, February 8, a large fire broke out at an oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk in the Rostov region. Local media distribute photos and videos of the incident. The footage shows how firefighters put out the flames, bringing down gray smoke. Near the scene is a fire engine.
According to preliminary data, the fire area was 100 square meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Rostov region claims that the fire was localized. The quenching continues.
Information about the cause of the emergency is not yet available.
The day before, on February 7, an oil refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Region, was on fire. The depressurization of the delayed coking unit in the column where gasoline is stored was named as a preliminary cause of the ignition. Authorities say no one was hurt.
But in the city of Efremov, Tula region, five people died as a result of an explosion in a five-story building. Seven more received burns and other injuries. Three people were reported missing. On the morning of February 8, a resident of Efremov, Elena Kochetova, reported that her 24-year-old daughter, who was on the missing list, was found dead.
According to her mother, the girl lived with a 26-year-old boy in an apartment on the fourth floor. There was the epicenter of the explosion. The young man survived. He is in the hospital.
The cause of the explosion was declared to be a gas leak. The entrance collapsed from the fifth to the second floor inclusive. An investigation has begun. Local media report about the malfunction of gas equipment.
Only last year in Russia there were more than 30 explosions of domestic gas in residential buildings. As a result of eight such emergencies, people died. The most deadly was the explosion in Nizhnevartovsk in early December. He claimed the lives of 10 people.
Source: Fakty
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