On Friday, March 24, emergency response services received a message about a fire in the town of Borovichi. The fire started at the address of passage Titova, house 3.
Arrived on the scene, the firefighters and the emergency services found that the fire had engulfed the corridor of one of the apartments.
Rescuers were able to quickly extinguish the fire.
Firefighters rescued seven people, including a child.
One victim was injured and was taken to hospital by ambulances.
The cause of the fire is not known at the moment, they are established by the investigative bodies. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the Novgorod region.
Earlier, The Eastern Heraldin Veliky Novgorod reported that a car burned in the Pestovsky district.