Polotsk rescuers evacuated 21 residents of a five-story building during a fire

October 8, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Two Polotsk residents were rescued from a fire in a five-story residential building in Polotsk on the evening of October 7, the press service of the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Situations Department told a BELTA correspondent. Employees of the city department for emergency situations had to evacuate 21 people from apartments located on the floors above the fire's epicenter. As a result, the owner of the burning apartment, a disabled person of the 3rd group born in 1953, and an unemployed Polotsk resident born in 1966 were rescued. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was carelessness while smoking in a state of intoxication by the owner of the premises. An investigation is underway.-0-