A high-rise building caught fire on Kashirskoye Highway

To date, the fire in a residential 22-storey building on the Kashirskoye Highway in Moscow has been localized, RIA Novosti was told at the State Fire Service of the capital. "The fire started in an apartment on the seventh floor of a 22-storey panel house number 55 on the Kashirskoye Highway at about 15.30," an employee of the UGPS said.

According to him, the fire spread to the balconies of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh floors. About 15 fire brigades worked at the scene. There were no reports of casualties.