Fire on Gagarin Avenue in Smolensk: 30 people evacuated, one man hospitalized with burns

In the early morning of October 25, a fire occurred in an apartment on the 8th floor of a house on Gagarin Avenue in Smolensk. Due to heavy smoke in the entrance, rescuers had to evacuate 30 residents.

The fire started in the kitchen of a one-room apartment around five in the morning. There were two men in the room: one was sleeping in the room, the other was in the kitchen. Noticing the fire, they tried to put it out on their own, but the flames spread quickly. The men called the emergency services and managed to get out to the stairwell before the firefighters arrived.

The first calculations of the Emergencies Ministry arrived in place after 6 minutes. Firefighters quickly eliminated the fire, preventing the spread of fire to other premises. The fire damaged the decoration of the kitchen wall on an area of 6 square meters, as well as the decoration of the corridor due to the high temperature.

Medics examined both men. 33-year-old Smolensk hospitalized with burns of varying severity and signs of poisoning by combustion products. According to the preliminary version, the cause of the fire could be a short circuit of the electrical wiring or an emergency mode of the power grid.