A garage complex with an area of 500 square meters caught fire in Yekaterinburg.

Fire area of 500 sq. m. The accident occurred in a five-story garage complex in Yekaterinburg. This was reported to Izvestia on August 3 by the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

"Gorenje is burning on the fifth floor of a five—storey garage complex building on an area of 500 square meters," the ministry said.

Previously, there were no casualties, the Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified.

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The People's Front announced that civil servants were being forced to fight fire, but the volunteer units did not confirm the information.

On August 1, a fire broke out in the Naberezhnye Chelny cottage village in Dolgoprudny. The fire area was 225 square meters. m. No information about the victims was received. 27 firefighters and five pieces of equipment were fighting the fire.

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