Mother and two toddlers rescued from apartment building fire in Vitebsk

March 15, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. A woman and her two young children were rescued this morning in Vitebsk from a fire in a multi-story building, Marina Fando, press secretary of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told a BELTA correspondent. The fire occurred in a three-room apartment on the 10th floor of a residential building. The report of the incident was received from the owners of the apartment themselves, who, as it turned out, could not extinguish the burning furniture on their own. As a result, due to heavy smoke, the owner of the apartment, born in 1982, and two boys, born in 2009 and 2010, found themselves in one of the rooms cut off from possible evacuation routes due to heavy smoke. Responding rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations rescued the young mother and the children. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, and hospitalization was not required. According to preliminary data, a child's prank with fire is being considered as the cause of the fire. -0-