One person died in a fire in an apartment building in the Sverdlovsk region.

A fire occurred in an apartment building in the Malyshevsky municipal district of the Sverdlovsk region, killing one person. This was reported on April 9 in the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region.

It is specified that the apartment on the fifth floor of the house on Avtomobilistov Street caught fire. At the moment, open gorenje has been completely eliminated.

"On an area of 32 sq. m. household property burned down in an apartment located on the fifth floor of a five-story municipal apartment building. <...> One person died as a result of the fire," the press service said.

30 people evacuated from the building on their own, nine more, including two children, were rescued by specialists of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Additional circumstances of the incident are being established.

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