Details: The fire started in a car wash building at 1 Dobrolyubov Street and covers an area of 2,000 sq. m. Next to the car wash is an annexe providing accommodation.
More than 200 people are reported to have escaped from the warehouse building. No casualties have been reported so far.
The fire has been assigned complexity level 3, and it is noted that there is a threat of cylinders exploding.
The 500-sq.-m roof of the building later collapsed.
Aircraft have reportedly been brought in to extinguish the fire.
Comment: Below is reportedly a different fire that happened earlier today in a car park due to the ignition of a diesel tank:
Below are just some of the most recent suspect fires and explosions in Russia. We suspect that most of them are due to sabotage and/or remotely-activated cyberattacks:
- ANOTHER large-scale fire in Russia, this time at an oil and gas field (18th December)
- Huge blast hits major oil refinery in latest hit to Russian infrastructure, fuels suspicions of sabotage (15th December)
- SECOND Russian shopping mall is mysteriously destroyed by fire, raising suspicions of sabotage attacks (12th December)
- Historic building goes up in flames in Moscow, follows massive blaze at mall (10th December)
- One dead after fire ravages one of Russia's biggest shopping centres (9th December)
- Huge fire engulfs residence of Algerian Ambassador to Russia in Moscow (23rd November)
- Fire at warehouse in central Moscow kills 2 (20th November)
- Huge explosion at gas pipeline near St. Petersburg, Russia (19th November)
See also: Airbase attacks deep inside Russia point to CIA covert ops and a planned war