At night in Novo-Lenino a fire broke out in an apartment on Rosa Luxemburg Street, killing a 65 year old woman. Firefighters evacuated about 40 people, 15 more needed rescuers help, and a 66 year old man was carried out from the burning apartment, injured by carbon monoxide. Preliminary cause was careless use of fire.
Last night, a tragedy occurred in the Novo-Lenino microdistrict. A fire broke out in a residential building on Rosa Luxemburg Street; at around 1 a.m., a one-room apartment on the fourth floor caught fire.The first firefighters who arrived at the scene initially began evacuating people. Before the firefighters arrived, about 40 people left the building, and another 15 residents needed rescuers’ assistance. In addition, firefighters carried a 66-year-old man suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning out of the burning apartment and handed him over to medics. A 65-year-old woman who had hidden under a bed was found too late. By that time, she had already died from poisoning.
The fire itself was extinguished in 15 minutes, but the aftermath took 1.5 hours to clear. 19 firefighters and rescuers fought the blaze, with 4 fire engines and 2 aerial ladders deployed.
The press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region reported that, according to preliminary data, the fire was caused by careless handling of fire.