A gas tank is on fire in the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd. This was reported on the website of the regional GU EMERCOM of Russia on Monday, August 10.
It is noted that at the site of the emergency, on Lenin Avenue, fire and rescue units of the 1st detachment of the FPS in the Volgograd region are working at an increased rank. The fire was assigned the second difficulty number.
“The grouping is being built up. The information is being specified, “the message says.
The Izvestia source notes that four people were injured in the gas explosion during the extinguishing of the fire. “Three people have minor injuries, one more was taken to hospital No. 25,” the newspaper’s interlocutor was told at the Volgograd Region Health Committee.
According to RIA Novosti, the four victims were firefighters extinguishing the fire.
According to the REN TV channel, the explosion occurred during planned work. The workers were supposed to burn out the remaining gas from the tank, but it caught fire and exploded.
The TV channel published a video from the scene of the fire. The footage shows a parking lot, behind which a column of fire rises. Then you can see the smoke coming from the place of fire.
At the end of March, in the town of Inza near Ulyanovsk, five people were injured in a fire in a truck carrying bottled gas. Four of them were hospitalized.
The volume of the tank was about 30 tons. At the time of the emergency, the truck was in the parking lot. Eyewitnesses called firefighters, who cooled the tank until all the gas had burned out. 15 people took part in the elimination of the fire.