Residents of two entrances were evacuated due to a fire in the basement of a nine-story building in the south-west of Moscow

March 23, 2023, 06:30

The fire broke out in the basement of a house on Miklukho-Maklaya Street in Moscow

Press Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations

Emergency services were called at about three in the morning on March 23 to Miklukho-Maklaya Street. Thick black smoke came out of a basement-type store on the first floor of a nine-story panel building, and eyewitnesses called 112. For the sake of safety, 20 people were evacuated from two entrances of the house.

Investigators found the source of the fire. Equipment and furniture caught fire on an area of ​​20 square meters in two basement rooms. Within an hour, the fire was completely extinguished, no one was hurt.

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