After a gas explosion in a multi-storey building in Novovoronezh, the Ministry of Emergency Situations rescued 32 people from a fire

An apartment caught fire on the second floor of a nine-story building. This happened after a domestic gas explosion in a multi-story building in the city of Novovoronezh in the Voronezh Region. There, the Ministry of Emergency Situations rescued 32 people from the fire.

This was stated in a statement by the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The incident happened tonight. The Ministry of Emergency Situations received information about the incident at 2.20. Firefighters, having urgently arrived at the scene, saw open flames in several apartments. The entrance to the building was filled with thick smoke.

The department's employees evacuated people to a safe place, using special rescue masks for them. This was a top priority. One of the 32 rescued residents of the damaged house is a minor.

Russian Emergencies Ministry employees evacuated 32 people, including one child, from the house using rescue equipment

- said the agency.

Firefighters also found a deceased person, whose identity has not yet been established. Another person was injured - a 15-year-old teenager.

It turned out that after the gas explosion a fire started. The fire damaged three apartments in the building.

The fire was extinguished at 04.22

- reported in the press service of the department.

Currently, 48 Emergencies Ministry employees are working at the scene. 16 units of special equipment are involved. A state of emergency is in effect in Novovoronezh to eliminate the consequences of the incidents, as reported by the Governor of the Voronezh Region, Alexander Gusev.

Comments

[Lev_Russia]

Emergencies Ministry employees rescued 32 people from a fire

Well done of course... But it would be better if we prevented more emergencies, and not had the Ministry of Emergency Situations save itself from their consequences later... There are just too many of these emergencies now... Although maybe there were plenty of them before, but we just weren't informed about them...

[Ross xnumx]

It turned out that after the gas explosion a fire started.

I'm so sick of this incomprehensible tolerance akin to mental retardation...
"Khlopok" is the sound of a snow leopard hitting a cheek, a bare bottom, or made by hitting one palm against another...

[Alexey RA]

Quote: ROSS 42

I'm so sick of this incomprehensible tolerance akin to mental retardation...

T - Tradition.
Even during the times of the Empire, the word “famine” in articles was to be replaced with “crop failure”.

And yes, the debris that flew in caused fires with popping sounds, after which the firefighters caused flooding.

[Dedok]

After a gas explosion in a multi-storey building in Novovoronezh

Last week there was something similar...
When will services finally begin to prevent incidents rather than deal with the consequences?

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Dedok

When will services finally begin to prevent incidents rather than deal with the consequences?

When they switch to electricity...

[Dedok]

When they switch to electricity...

so then everything will remain the same, the problems will be a little different

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Dedok

so then everything will remain the same, the problems will be a little different

There may be others, but not as critical.
I have never heard of entrances and houses collapsing because of the "KZ"...
In the worst case, in modern buildings the RCD will trip...

[Al_com]

I don't really believe in these gas explosions.
1) it is not very easy to explode gas - a certain ratio of gas and air is needed
2) modern VDGP are equipped with gas analyzers with shut-off valves, which are more likely to work on a fart than not to work
3) They add an odorant to the gas to make it stink. Before the gas builds up enough to collapse a house, the whole block will stink.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Bravo, Andrey! You named the most important factors with the safety of household gas supply systems, starting with modern stoves (ovens) with automatic shut-off. But here the determining factor is the word "modern". And many have old stoves in their apartments without such valves and the law does not prohibit their use.
But I still can't suspect that these aren't gas explosions, but something else.
I wondered why we hardly hear about such explosions in any other country in the world, but here they are weekly news and there is no end in sight.
I didn't find a clear answer, and they write about gas analyzers that they are triggered by any strong smell in the apartment, even by cologne or the smell of paint... Well, they are not eternal either, and how things are with their verification is a big question. In short, we are waiting for another explosion, it is inevitable in our reality.

[Kuzmitsky]

Electric stoves in apartments are much safer than gas stoves. But they are expensive.

[Al_com]

The point is that I wasn’t writing about stoves and equipment, but about devices like the SAKZ, which are mandatory.
For quite a long time now (for about 7 years, to be exact) a contract for "in-house gas equipment maintenance" has been mandatory, within the framework of which these devices are checked, as well as ventilation...
So, a natural gas explosion can ONLY occur when the gas to air ratio is ≈1:10, i.e. a conventional kitchen of 6 m² has a volume of 15 m³.
So, in order to explode gas in the kitchen, you need to release about 1m³ of gas there, and the kitchen must be hermetically sealed so that the gas does not escape into other rooms and ventilation.
Even in this case (the door is tightly closed and there is a pigeon in the ventilation), the glazing area of ​​the room with gas is designed to be taken out by the window without destroying the supporting structures.

Talk to people who work with gas - ask what conditions must exist for an entrance to be destroyed with gas.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Andrey, if we consider that the almost weekly explosions in apartments that happen in our country and previously happened in the USSR (which were not advertised in the press) are not because of gas... Then what is your version? To believe that these are terrorist attacks by some militants is too implausible. These scumbags have much more significant and louder goals. And we know about such explosions in the subway, at train stations, airports and shopping centers. But to blow up (not with gas) an ordinary apartment in a "Khrushchevka", and on the top floor at that... somehow completely unprofessional for a terrorist bomber. So what are you talking about?

[Al_com]

Alexander, it is not in my principles to give out unconfirmed versions - that is called gossip.
It exploded in the USSR, but no one knows about it because it was not advertised!!! Super fact!
Then how do you know?

I am telling you the facts about gas. Study the issue, then we will talk.

Continuing the information from Wikipedia:
"at a concentration in the air of about 5% and more than 16%, natural gas burns, at a concentration of 5 to 16%, its mixture with air explodes. If the concentration is less than 4,4%, then there will not be enough gas to start a fire, and if more than 17%, then there will be too little oxygen in the mixture for combustion"
Even in educational institutions they say that it is practically impossible to EXPLODE gas in normal household conditions.

This is if we are talking about methane.
With liquefied propane-butane the picture is a little different. Well, and gas cylinders too.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Then how do you know?
I am a dinosaur from that time and individual cases of gas explosions in apartments still leaked into the local press, but were not advertised on central TV or radio. That is why I remember a couple of such explosions in Novosibirsk in the 70-80s and saw a destroyed apartment on the 5th floor in Biysk. Those were quiet and calm times from terrorism.
Andrey, your figures and percentages certainly add weight, but they do not convince me, in the absence of any other option except gas. But it is obvious from your words that if it is not gas, then it is a terrorist attack with explosives. But somehow it is weak for terrorism and we remember how they blew up houses in Moscow during the Chechen campaign... And now there are a lot of explosions in apartments, when windows are blown out and fires start... well, what could it be, if not gas?
In N-sk a year ago there was such an explosion that they had to demolish the entire 5-story building on Lineynaya Street, since the central entrance collapsed, and the building is very old. That's where there were real suspicions that it was a terrorist attack and the time was such. But they showed residents of this building who complained about the smell of gas before the explosion.

[Al_com]

"...now there are a lot of explosions in apartments, when windows blow out and fires start..." so what am I talking about?
"...the area of ​​glazing of the room with gas is calculated so that the window can be taken out without destroying the supporting structures..."

Yes, yes, I know this house and this case - there are a lot of unsaid things and shady characters who were dragged to account by the ears...
This house was not fueled by methane, but by propane-butane from a gas tank. I repeat - liquefied propane-butane is a different story.
Firstly, it is heavier than air and accumulates at the bottom, which makes it more difficult to “ventilate” it.

That's exactly it - "there are a lot of explosions now". Somehow it was not heard, at least not in such a way that one could say - "a lot of explosions" even in the post-Soviet period.

Again, at the beginning of the gasification boom ≈2006, and especially in Soviet times, the requirements for gasification were as simple as possible, the equipment was primitive, even without automatic gas shutdown in the absence of flame. However, there were no such widespread explosions.
If they exploded, it was usually cylinders. The force of the explosion there is not weak and it is quite easy to blow up (especially in winter).
Let me repeat - it is very difficult to BLOW UP (exactly blow up) methane, and in our homes we mainly feed on methane.
At the same time, a fire with broken glass is easy.

[Al_com]

I became interested in what can be found about the explosiveness of methane in the public domain...
https://antonio-merloni.ru/video-vzriv-gaza-v-komnate
Read and imagine how the conditions must coincide for the gas to explode and destroy the house.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

I read this article from the link... And I firmly understood the conclusion from it:
For a gas explosion to occur, three conditions must be met: a closed space; a fatal limit of gas concentration in the air; and a source of fire (spark).
And I see absolutely no obstacles to creating such conditions in rare, exceptional cases. Which is what happens here every week in a huge country with decent gasification and our sloppiness.
And according to all the experiments of these two "Mythbusters", the vast majority of gas leaks do not lead to explosions... and who argues with that? But for hundreds of leaks, there is one fatal one, when such conditions are created, that's all...