Four people rescued from fires in the Vitebsk region in the last three days

August 15, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Four people were rescued from fires in the Vitebsk region over the past three days, while 16 people had to be evacuated during the extinguishing of these fire incidents. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press secretary of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Marina Fando.

Thus, on the night of August 14, during a fire in an apartment on the fifth floor of a building in Vitebsk, an elderly woman and her son were rescued from the fire. The victims, born in 1935 and 1959, with burns of varying degrees of severity and poisoning by combustion products, were taken to the regional clinical hospital. During the incident, rescuers evacuated 6 people from adjacent apartments.

As established, the cause of the fire was carelessness while smoking by a man who was intoxicated. As a result, property was damaged in the two-room apartment, walls and ceiling were smoked, and the damage is estimated at Br5 million.

Two more people were rescued from fires that occurred on August 12. In Orsha, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations units rescued a Group II disabled person, born in 1958, during an incident in a two-room apartment on the fifth floor of a five-story residential building. Rescuers provided the victim with first aid before medical assistance, after which the man was hospitalized in city hospital No. 2 with a diagnosis of "poisoning by combustion products." According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire could have been the victim's carelessness while smoking.

In the village of Zhuki Lozhnye, Shcharchovshchyna district, the owner of the house, born in 1950, was rescued from a fire in a private building. Before the arrival of the Ministry of Emergency Situations units, local residents living nearby pulled him out of the smoke-filled room. The victim, with burns to his back, was taken to the district hospital. Carelessness of the man while smoking is considered the preliminary cause of the fire.-0-