Man Dies in Long-Burning Furniture Factory Fire in Vladivostok
A production building on Fadeeva Street in Vladivostok caught fire overnight after midnight. The fire was only extinguished by 8 a.m., and a man«s body was discovered inside. His identity is not yet known, according to the MAX channel of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) for Primorsky Krai.
The workshop was for furniture manufacturing and had two floors. The second floor and the roof were burning. Upon the arrival of firefighters, the fire area was about 1000 square meters (10,764 sq ft). During the firefighting efforts, the roof collapsed. Open flames were eliminated by 02:15, and the fire was fully extinguished by 07:51.
A few hours earlier, another crew was extinguishing a two-story wooden apartment building on Vsevoloda Sibirtseva Street. According to EMERCOM, eight apartments on the second floor were on fire. It was extinguished by 5 a.m., with an area of about 160 square meters (1,722 sq ft). Fifteen people evacuated on their own before firefighters arrived; this time, there were no deaths or injuries.
Recently, at a house on Lugovaya Street, 70, two young women were injured due to a fire that started on a stairwell landing near a garbage chute. According to one of them, they became trapped in an elevator cabin on the floor where the fire was already raging and barely managed to escape. Both suffered burns, and one was hospitalized.
One of the women recounted that there was no smell of smoke on the first floor when they entered the elevator; only then did it smell of burning plastic. The elevator first went to the 6th floor, but the doors did not open fully and immediately slammed shut, and the cabin then moved directly toward the source of the fire.
