A fire at a machine-building plant in Voronezh led to casualties
Voronezh firefighters quickly extinguished a fire on an area of 500 square meters that occurred at the ENIKmash-V enterprise. A fire at this engineering plant in Voronezh led to casualties.
This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.
The Voronezh rescue service received a report of a fire in the electrical equipment production workshop of the machine-building plant at about nine o'clock in the morning today. The fire also engulfed the warehouses. The fire was assigned the third level of complexity.
64 Emergency Situations Ministry employees and twenty units of special equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire. During the event, representatives of the rescue service removed five gas cylinders from the premises - one with oxygen and four with propane. Already at the beginning of eleven, the fire was completely extinguished.
Three company employees died during this tragic incident. Their death occurred as a result of poisoning by combustion products. Three more people were rescued. When the workshop caught fire, some of the employees did not have time to leave the premises in time. It was difficult to find them quickly, as the workshop was filled with smoke.
There was so much of it that smoke was also observed outside the plant in the Kominternovsky district of Voronezh, where the enterprise is located. There were traffic jams on the streets due to smoke.
The cause of the fire has not yet been established.
Also yesterday, a big fire occurred in one of the markets in Astrakhan.
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