Two men died in a fire in a residential building in Grodno region

Photo by Grodno Regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations November 12, Grodno. Two men died in a fire in a residential building in the Grodno Region, BelTA learned from the Grodno Regional Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

On November 11 at 23:36, a resident of the village of Glinany reported to rescuers that a private residential building on Oktyabrskaya Street was on fire. The man told the dispatcher that the building was completely engulfed in flames and assumed that there could be two people inside. Four fire brigades were immediately dispatched to the specified address.

it turned out that the house belonged to a local 47-year-old resident and his 71-year-old father. According to the pensioner, he woke up from the sound of a fire alarm, went outside and tried to put out the fire on his own before the fire brigades arrived . His son and a friend who was visiting remained in the house.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations workers found two dead people in the burning room: the owner of the house and his guest.

The rescuers extinguished the fire. The fire destroyed property, damaged walls, ceilings and roofing. The cause of the fire is being determined. According to one version, it was careless handling of fire while smoking.   

Since the beginning of this year, 594 fires have occurred in the Grodno region, in which 44 people died. As statistics show, most often fires occur in the residential sector. The predominant cause is careless handling of fire, including while smoking. Thus, over 10 months of this year, unextinguished cigarettes caused 110 fires, in which 24 people died, 19 of whom were in a state ofALCOHOL intoxication .