The shopping center “RIO” in Yaroslavl is working in full again – as stated by the management of the shopping center. It took two days to eliminate the consequences of the accident, restore communications and pump out water from the basement floor.
We will remind, on Saturday, January 30, in the midst of a trading day in the shopping and entertainment center RIO, there was a breakthrough of water pipes. Water literally gushed from the mall, the bay is the basement floor, the elevation on which the mall stands and the roads that pass next to the building. There was so much water that some cars parked at RIO in the lowland could not start because of the water.
According to the emergency services, the cause of the accident was a break in communications, provoked by ground movements.
Fortunately, no one was killed or injured. The water was pumped out, the pipes were repaired. According to the information disseminated by the management of the mall, the goods in the basement, where the Textile Center is located, were also not affected.
RIO restored work in full.