On the eve of the day an explosion occurred in one of the five-story buildings in Upper Pyshma. Blast wave carried glass in the windows of one of the apartments on the fifth floor.

Information about the emergency in the house number 22 on the street Jubilee entered the duty department of the Internal Affairs of Verkhnyaya Pyshma at 16:15.

"A reinforced investigative and operational group was immediately sent to the scene of the incident, under the leadership of the head of the district department, Lieutenant-Colonel Anatoly Novikov. There also came the city prosecutor Danil Amirov, deputy head of the administration of the municipality Nikolai Rezinsky, representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, other interested services and departments. Detectives of criminal investigation have already established the identity of the owner of the home. He was previously convicted for theft citizen Yakhin 1980 birth. According to preliminary data, he found two second-hand bottles from a gas mask in the dump and decided to make homemade fireworks out of them, filling them with flammable liquid, in order to arrange a winter fishing holiday where he was going to. The device was made and was in a large room, and the "Kulibin" with his friend and woman was sitting in the kitchen. The product worked before the time, there was a fire. As a result, in an apartment a blast wave knocked out the windows in three windows, was damaged by a non-load-bearing partition. The people in the apartment, as well as other residents of the house, did not suffer. Threats to the building there. The supply of gas to the five-story building did not cease due to lack of necessity.

Mass evacuation was not carried out, since most people at that time had not returned from work. The owner of the "fireworks" was taken to the police department for a survey in order to establish more detailed and precise circumstances of the emergency. Based on the results of the inspection that has been started by the internal affairs bodies, a relevant procedural decision will be made, "said Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Sverdlovsk Region.