Six people rescued from fires in the Vitebsk region over the past day

March 18, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. Six people were rescued from fires in the Vitebsk region over the past day, and in all cases, the victims were heavily intoxicated, the propaganda and training center at the regional emergency situations department told a BELTA correspondent. Vitebsk rescuers had to carry five people out of a smoke-filled residential premises in one of the houses on Frunze Avenue. The report of the incident in the apartment, where an unemployed man born in 1960 lived, was received from neighbors late in the evening. Having penetrated to the source of the fire, rescuers found a whole company: four men and a woman were sleeping in different rooms, in the kitchen and in the toilet. After they were taken to a safe place, the owner of the apartment had to be hospitalized - he was poisoned by carbon monoxide. The cause of the incident was the ignition of food left unattended on the stove. All those present in the apartment at that time were unemployed, and the apartment itself has a bad reputation among neighbors due to the constant disturbances caused by its owner. Another person was rescued from a fire in a private house in the village of Sloboda, Shumilinsky district. A man born in 1946 had to be taken to the district hospital with a diagnosis of "severe alcohol poisoning." As a result of the fire, the roof of the house was destroyed, and the ceiling, walls, and property were damaged. The cause of the incident was carelessness while smoking by the owner while intoxicated. -0-