A fire broke out in a building in Irkutsk. The ceiling between the third floor and the roof, filled with mineral wool, burned. Extinguishing was complicated by the frame structure with wooden elements and voids, so the fire was assigned the second level of difficulty. 10 fire trucks and 25 rescuers worked at the scene. The fire was contained and extinguished, no one was injured, and the cause and damage are being determined.

The ceiling between the 3rd floor and the roof, filled with mineral wool insulation, was on fire.
In total, 10 fire engines and 25 personnel from the 2nd Detachment of the Federal Fire Service for the Irkutsk Region and 1 crew from the Emergency Rescue Service of Irkutsk arrived at the scene.
- Extinguishing the fire was complicated by the fact that the building’s frame structure, covered with sandwich panels, contained many wooden elements and voids, which caused the fire to spread quite quickly, - says the head of the fire suppression service of the 2nd Detachment of the Federal Fire Service for the Irkutsk Region, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Service Pavel Kozin. – The fire was assigned a second-degree complexity rating. Water was supplied from a fire hydrant located 800 meters from the scene, and a controlled opening of the roof and the wall cladding on the 3rd floor was carried out.
The fire was localized at 18:30 (Irk) and extinguished at 19:34 (Irk). As a result of the incident, the insulation and the area between the ceiling of the third floor and the roof over an area of 190 sq. m. were damaged; there were no fatalities or injuries. The amount of damage caused by the fire, as well as the cause of the fire and the possible responsible person, are being determined by specialists from the Department of Supervisory Activities for Irkutsk of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Irkutsk Region.
Based on materials from the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Irkutsk Region