On the morning of April 7, a fire broke out in a multi-storey panel apartment building in Ussuriysk. As it became known, he started because of a lighted outlet, which included a mobile phone charger. The burning area was 50 square meters.

Firefighters arrived in place 8 minutes after receiving the signal. With the help of a gas-defensive service unit, four women and a child were able to stand out from a room engulfed in fire and filled with smoke. However, ambulance doctors, who immediately began resuscitation, were powerless, people could not be saved. Another man who jumped from the balcony of the fourth floor, died in the hospital.

The fire in the house was extinguished for 3.5 hours. It involved 17 people and 6 units of equipment. On the fact of fire criminal case on h. 3 items. 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence).