A large-scale fire broke out in the center of St. Petersburg in the business center " As a result of the incident, a firefighter died, according to RosSMI.

The area of \u200b\u200bthe fire will be 4 thousand. sq.. The fire is assigned the maximum (fifth) difficulty rank. 40 people were evacuated from the building, two of them were injured and taken to hospital. During the extinguishing, two firefighters were injured, they have burns of 40-50% of the body surface, another firefighter died.

The building is burning four floors throughout the area. The grouping of forces and means to extinguish the fire in the building was increased threefold - up to 300 people and almost 70 pieces of equipment, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said..

Baza.