Schoolboy hospitalized after falling from a balcony he set on fire near Ivanovo

A first-grade student was taken to hospital with fractures after he fell from the balcony he set on fire in an apartment on 2nd Lvovskaya Street in the city of Kineshma, Ivanovo Region. This was reported on February 17 in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

It is noted that during the incident the fire engulfed two balconies on the fifth floor of the apartment building. Rescuers extinguished the fire on an area of 10 square meters. m. As established in the Department, the child set a fire on the balcony when his father went to the store. At the same time, he had previously put his son to bed.

"While no one was at home, the first-grader decided to play with fire: set fire to the paper and threw it on the balcony. The boy was frightened that the apartment was closed and jumped from the balcony. With fractures he was hospitalized", - noted in the Telegram-channel of the Ministry of emergency Situations of Russia.

Currently, the medics are deciding the issue of attracting aviation to transport the victim to the regional hospital in the city of Ivanovo.

Before that, on February 16, a fire in Chuvashia killed two children of two and four years old, a 27-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man were hospitalized. The Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that the fire was extinguished on 40 square meters. meters. Six specialists on three units of equipment worked on the site.