Overview

• Moscow firefighters used a lifting device to remove two people from a burning 15th‑floor apartment, with one of the rescued being a child.
• The Moscow blaze involved personal items and furniture and was extinguished over an area of about 10 square meters, while roughly 10 residents exited the building on their own.
• In St. Petersburg’s Petrogradsky district, a two‑room flat fire left one man dead and three women hospitalized, and eight people were evacuated from danger.
• St. Petersburg authorities reported deploying 15 specialists and three vehicles, with the apartment fire reported at 16:04 and fully extinguished by 17:15 local time.
• In Penza, a fire in a two‑story wooden multi‑apartment house burned about 160 square meters, injuring a 76‑year‑old woman and prompting the evacuation of 10 people, as MChS specialists work to establish the cause.