In Russia, the morning of June 20 began with another large-scale fire. At about 6 a.m., a warehouse near a tire factory in Yaroslavl, Russia, caught fire.
The burning area amounted to 2500 square meters, and thick black smoke is rising over the city. This was reported by Russian media, which published photos from the scene of the fire.
According to Russian media reports, the local department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry received a signal of a fire in a warehouse in Yaroslavl at 5:45 am.
“The fire started on Zhovtneva Avenue, building 5, building 78. Initially, the fire was assigned a complexity rating of No. 3, and an hour later, at 6:52 a.m., it was downgraded to the second. Fire station No. 2 is working at the scene with 36 rescuers and 15 pieces of equipment. Fortunately, there are no casualties,” Komsomolskaya Pravda propagandists write.
At 7:38 a.m., Russian firefighters announced that the fire had been localized on an area of 2,500 square meters. However, they have not yet been able to fully control the fire.
Initially, locals assumed that the black smoke that covered the city was coming from the tire factory. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations denied the speculation: they said that warehouse and industrial buildings in the neighborhood were burning.
“At the scene of the call, there was a fire inside a warehouse. The warehouse is metal, 8×30 meters in size. There may be paint and varnish materials inside. At the scene, the warehouse is a metal warehouse measuring 15×70 meters,” the propagandists quote a statement by representatives of the Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Yaroslavl Region.
The day before, a massive fire broke out at a mechanical repair plant in Moscow.
The fire engulfed 100 square meters of the roof and was assigned the first level of complexity. Russian propagandists claimed that the building was allegedly undergoing reconstruction, while at the same time reporting that people had been evacuated from it.
