Six fire brigades gathered at a three-story house in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg, where an apartment broke out on the evening of December 21.
According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in St. Petersburg, the fire spread to 25 square meters in a three-ruble house on Primorsky Prospekt, 37, building 2. Upon arriving at the scene and assessing the situation, the rescuers assigned the fire a rank of 1-Bis – the first of five increased numbers of complexity.
Thirty firefighters managed to localize the fire at 22:08, forty minutes following the signal was received on the desk on duty.
The ambulance took the injured man to the hospital.