One person was killed
and 13 injured in the disaster.
MYTISHCHI /Moscow
Region/, July 11. /TASS/. Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that broke out
at a gas pipeline on the premises of a thermal power plant in Mytishchi, near
Moscow, Russian Deputy Emergencies Minister Ilya Denisov told reporters on
Thursday.
"The fire at a
high-pressure gas pipeline has been put out. The firefighting operation is
underway at a transformer station and at certain hotbeds of fire, and a foam
attack is being prepared. There is no threat to the residents of the Moscow
Region and the environment," the official said.
By latest reports,
fire in the administrative building has also been contained. "The fire has
been contained," the source said.
Outside fire was extinguished
as well, head of the Emergencies Ministry's Main Directorate for the Moscow
Region Sergei Poletykin reported on Thursday.
"The outside
fire was put out at 15:43 Moscow time," he told journalists.
Poletykin noted that
the fire started as a result of gas leakage from the gas pipeline. Russian
Deputy Emergencies Minister Ilya Denisov earlier said that the high-pressure
pipeline broke, which led to a jet fire.
"There was a
threat to a dormitory located nearby, but it was saved, just two square meters
of the area were damaged, and in the near future the residents will be able to
return to their rooms," Poletykin said.
The fire covered an
area of over 1,000 square meters, the fire-fighting headquarters told TASS.
"The building’s roof is on fire on an area of more than 1,000 square
meters," the source said.
One person was killed
and 13 were injured in the fire that sparked in the pipeline near the thermal
power station in Mytishchi, Moscow Region, the Center for Emergency Medicine
told TASS. "One person was killed, 12 people received outpatient
treatment, and one more person was hospitalized," the source said.
The Emergencies
Ministry specified that the body of the deceased person was found during the
fire fighting operations.
The firefighting
effort involved 157 personnel, two helicopters and two fire engines.
A high-pressure gas
station, a gas pipeline, technical facilities and an administration building
caught fire on the premises of the Severnaya thermal power plant in
Chelobityevo, Mytishchi, on Thursday.
The gas-powered
Severnaya thermal plant in Mytishchi, with the capacity of 1,060 MWt, was put
into service in 1992.
Source: ITAR-TASS
11-07-2019
