Open fire extinguished at warehouse in Moscow Region

Emergencies May 03, 2022, 8:42

The fire received the third rank of complexity out of five

MOSCOW, May 3. /TASS/. Firefighters extinguished a blaze at a warehouse in the Bogorodsk urban district of the Moscow region, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry told TASS.

"07:36 - the extinguishment of an open fire," the agency said.

Earlier, the ministry reported that а fire broke out in a warehouse located on Kudinovskoye Highway. By the time the firefighters arrived, the entire 33,800 square meters of the warehouse were engulfed by the flames.

A TASS source in the emergency services specified that there was a partial collapse of the building and there was a threat to the neighboring one, located 10 meters away. The fire received the third rank of complexity out of five.

The warehouse is located on the premises of a production and warehouse complex with a total area of 112 hectares. The area of all warehouses is 520,000 square meters. Textbooks and other printed products were stored inside the warehouse that caught fire.

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