Workers rescue child from burning apartment in Russian city

In Chelyabinsk, a 13-year-old teenager was injured in a fire in an apartment on the first floor of a five-storey building on Peti Kalmykov Street. This was reported in the GU EMERCOM in the region.

According to the agency, the fire was reported at 10:25. The first calculations arrived in six minutes. The fire engulfed things and furniture on an area of five square meters.

Due to heavy smoke, firefighters took ten residents out of the entrance using rescue kits. The fire was destroyed in 20 minutes.

The teenager was helped out by workers who changed curbs in the yard. They noticed the falling smoke, sawed a blank bar from the window and helped the child to go outside.

According to preliminary data of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the most likely cause of the fire is the fire of the battery of a mobile phone, which the child left in the next room. The victim with signs of poisoning by combustion products was handed over to the ambulance team.