14.5 thousand inhabitants of Kashira were left without heat

14.5 thousand inhabitants of the city of Kashira near Moscow were left without heating as a result of an accident on a heating main, news agencies report.

The breakthrough of the central heating line in the Kashira-2 microdistrict occurred at 16.30. Now at the scene of the incident there are three emergency brigades with a total number of 20 people. In addition, two operational groups of rescuers from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation in the Moscow Region and the Central Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation went to the scene of the accident. The causes of the accident are clarified.

Now the air temperature in Kashira is minus 18 degrees, and at night it can drop to minus 26 degrees.

Accidents, as a result of which thousands of inhabitants of Russia are left without heat or light, occur regularly. On September 16 last year, an explosion occurred at the sewage and pumping station number 1 in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region. During the explosion, two were killed and 12 people were injured. As a result of the explosion at the sewer station, about 260 thousand people living in Krasnogorsk, Dedovsk and the village of Nakhabino remained without water supply. Three employees of the sewer station were killed.

On September 28, an accident occurred in Arkhangelsk at the central sewer station, as a result of which almost the entire city with a population of 359 thousand people was left without water.

On November 27, more than 50 residential buildings in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were left without cold and hot water due to an accident in the city water utility. In addition, on the same day in Orenburg, more than 70 houses remained in the water supply without water supply, where more than 5.5 thousand people live.