On the night of November 19, a Honda CR V caught fire on Postyshev Boulevard in Irkutsk. By the time firefighters arrived, it was already burning inside. The engine compartment and cabin burned out. Specialists are now determining the cause, damage, and responsible person.
At night, on November 19, a Honda CR-V was on fire on Postyshev Boulevard. At present, experts are determining the cause, the damage, and the responsible person. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region.The report to the fire department was received at 23:42. Six minutes later, firefighters were at the scene.
— By the time the first unit arrived, the car was burning from the inside. The open fire was extinguished in two minutes, — the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
As a result, the engine compartment and the interior of the foreign-made car burned out. The total area was 3.5 square meters.
Note that since the beginning of this year, 113 car fires have occurred in Irkutsk, which accounts for 30% of the total number across the entire region. The Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, and Ust-Ilimsk districts also made the TOP 5 in terms of the number of fires.
As stated by the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, car arsons in 2015 cannot be called an epidemic. It is just that these incidents have now begun to attract more attention from city residents, who film everything on video and take photos, the law enforcement agency noted.