ULAN-UDE, December 19 (Itar-Tass) —— The Buryatian presidential administration and the republic's parliament are working as normal after a fire was extinguished in their building on Monday morning.
The people have returned to their office rooms, a presidential administration official told Itar-Tass.
The information about a blaze on the roof of Buryatia's main office building was received by the rescue service at 04:45 Moscow time this Monday. The first EMERCOM crew arrived at the site in five minutes. One hundred and five people were evacuated from the building, a source at the Russian Emergencies Ministry's main department in Buryatia said.
According to the preliminary information, the fire was caused by a short circuit. The blaze did not spread. It was extinguished at 05:11 Moscow time. Six square metres of the roof are damaged. Nobody was hurt.
More than 70 firemen fought the fire. They used 23 vehicles, including 16 fire engines