A rescuer was injured while extinguishing a fire due to a Christmas tree in a St. Petersburg apartment

On Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg in a two-room apartment on Kanareechnaya Street caught fire, a rescuer was injured during extinguishing. This was reported on January 25 by a source of TV channel "78".

It is specified that the fire spread over an area of 15 square meters. m. In the apartment lives a family with a child, but at the time of the fire there was no one at home. Firefighters evacuated four people from the building, they are unharmed. However, a 23-year-old rescuer was injured, he received burns to his hands and was hospitalized in consciousness.

The footage from the scene shows flames bursting out of the windows of the apartment.

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