Fire at Moscow shopping mall extinguished, no injured reported
Russia
November 25, 2013, 10:38
MOSCOW, November 25. /ITAR-TASS/. The fire in the Yevropeysky ("European") shopping mall in Moscow is extinguished, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry's city department told Itar-Tass.
First firefighting crews arrived at the site in four minutes after the alarm call that was received at 06:06 Moscow time on Monday morning.
An advertising board was burning on the sixth floor of the seven-storey shopping mall. The blaze spread to the roof. Afire were a total of 200 sq m, the source said.
Fifty staff members were evacuated. Nobody was hurt.
It is not known yet what caused the fire.