This was reported by the press center of the State Service for Emergency Situations.

It should be noted that 240 people and 52 units of equipment were involved in eliminating the fire, of which 90 rescuers and 18 units of equipment from the State Emergency Services. Also came to the aid of two dozen local residents.

Currently, the operational headquarters on the site of the fire is headed by Maxim Gritsaenko, the head of the State Emergency Management Department in Nikolaev Oblast.

Recall, as co-reported "URA-Inform, only in the last two weeks of August in the country was seen about five thousand fires. So, from the first to the August 14 rescue divisions of the State Emergency Situations Ministry managed to eliminate four thousand. 759 fires, which rescued 26 people.