Three emergency situations in the Moscow metro in one day: broadcast

On the morning of Wednesday, June 5, a fire broke out in the Moscow metro at the Okhotny Ryad station. Data on casualties vary; the preliminary cause of the fire is technical. More than 4 thousand people were evacuated from several stations.

18:50 PublicPost

Due to the increased intervals between trains on the Sokolnicheskaya Line during the evening rush hour, the stations are overcrowded and people have difficulty moving.

Park of Culture . Photo: Evgeniy Natelashvili

17:42 Interfax

At about 17:00, on the stretch between the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya and Timiryazevskaya stations towards the center, the rolling stock stopped for technical reasons. Interfax was told about this by the Moscow Department of Transport. It took repair crews 25 minutes to fix the problems and restore traffic along the line.

15:54 Mosmetro ‏@sosmosmetro, unofficial version

Traffic intervals in the center of the Sokolnicheskaya metro line will be increased until the end of the day. It will be uncomfortable during rush hour.

15:36 Moscow Prosecutor's Office

The Moscow Metro prosecutor's office will check the transport safety of the metro after the fire. This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office. It also says that a similar incident occurred in the metro on May 5 this year on the stretch between the Vykhino and Ryazansky Prospekt stations of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. Then the prosecutor's office made a presentation to the metro and demanded that the violations be eliminated. The deputy head of the Tunnel Structures Service of the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro" received a reprimand. Now the prosecutor's office is also going to check how the violations were corrected in May.

14:46 Interfax

Muscovites are complaining to the city’s Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development about the operation of illegal taxis near Sokolnicheskaya Line metro stations. Carriers' prices are several times higher.

The department told Interfax that the authorities organized the work of legal taxis: “ New Yellow”, “Moscow”, “Formula Taxi”, “Rhythm” and “Glavavtoprokat”. “These enterprises carry out transportation at minimum tariffs. The Department of Transport appeals to Muscovites and guests of the capital with a request not to use the services of illegal carriers,” the press center said. Also, about 40 additional buses were launched along the trolleybus routes "Bk" and "Bch", No. 14, No. 15, No. 31 and No. 41.

14:29 Interfax

“15 people were hospitalized in Moscow hospitals as a result of a fire that occurred in the capital’s metro on Wednesday morning, among them a fifteen-year-old girl. Three of the victims are in the intensive care unit of City Clinical Hospital No. 14,” said Georgy Golukhov, head of the capital’s health department.

14:15 PublicPost

At 14:10, traffic was restored in full - trains are now running with passengers.

13:58 Russian Emergency Situations Ministry

Train traffic on the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro has been restored, and test trains have been launched.

“Restoration work was completed at 13:38 Moscow time, train traffic was restored at 13:40,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

13:50 Interfax

During the second smoke event, there were no people on the “red” line. “The trains were launched as tests. There were no people on the trains or at the stations,” said Viktor Biryukov, head of the press service of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

13:33 Interfax

Three victims of the fire in the metro are in the intensive care unit of the city clinical hospital No. 14 named after Korolenko. These are women 26, 43 and 47 years old. They are poisoned by combustion products, one of them suffers from bronchial asthma. The condition of all three is assessed as moderate.

13:28 Interfax

Vehicle traffic along Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street, which was blocked on Wednesday morning due to a fire in the metro, was open, but due to a repeated closure in the subway, it was again limited. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate.

13:27 PublicPost

The Okhotny Ryad metro station is again closed to passengers.

13:20 Peter Kuznetsov @peterkuznetsov

A new mayor is being elected in the metro. While the smoke is black.

13:13 Kommersant FM

An eyewitness to the fire in the metro, head of the Crime department of the Kommersant publishing house, Maxim Varyvdin, was at the Komsomolskaya station. On the air of Kommersant FM , he said that the police helped the passengers, and the metro employees were “running and screaming.” According to him, Muscovites reacted quite calmly and even with humor to what happened, but the visitors were very nervous.

13:12

“There was a spark, there was no smoke. Passengers will not be evacuated,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

13:11 Interfax

“As of 12:30 Moscow time, 55 calls to doctors for help were registered, 11 people were taken to hospitals, of which seven patients were diagnosed with combustion product poisoning,” said Georgy Golukhov, head of the Moscow Department of Health.

13:01 Interfax

The new smoke occurred due to a short circuit in the power cable, Interfax reports, citing the police. At the same time, the police claim that it was closed on the stretch between the Okhotny Ryad and Lubyanka stations, and not between the Lenin Library and Okhotny Ryad, as in the morning. Rescuers again descend into the tunnels to search for the location of the closure.

12:51 Ani ‏@Anuki_KpOp

I’m on the subway and my aunt is putting on lipstick. The train stopped abruptly. Now she's a joker.

12:49 Interfax

On the “red” metro line there is again smoke in the tunnel at the same place where the fire occurred. Train service has been suspended.

“Due to smoke, at 12:36 on Wednesday, the tension on the contact rail was removed again,” the metro press service reported.

12:27 Interfax

Three victims of the fire in the metro were released from hospitals, four remain there.

12:18 Investigative Committee

The Investigative Committee will check the capital's metro for compliance with the requirements of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements"). “All the circumstances of the incident are being established. The number of people who sought help and were hospitalized in medical institutions in Moscow is also being established,” the committee said in a statement . “Based on the results of the inspection, a procedural decision will be made.”

12:17 EMERCOM of Russia

At 12:05 (Moscow time) on June 5, 2013, train traffic in the Moscow metro was restored in full according to the normal schedule.

12:15 Interfax

52 people sought medical help, four were hospitalized, according to the Moscow Health Department.

11:58 PublicPost

All stations of the Sokolnicheskaya metro line from Krasnye Vorota to Kropotkinskaya - six of them - are closed to passengers.

11:56 Daniil Kolomiychuk, PublicPost

Despite the fact that the first reports of train stops on the Sokolnicheskaya Line appeared before nine in the morning, at 10:10 at the entrance to the Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro station no one was warned about this. I went through the turnstile, and already in the carriage the driver announced that the train was only going to Komsomolskaya.

However, the train did not reach Komsomolskaya - everyone was dropped off in Sokolniki. I walked in a dense stream of people, crowded trams and minibuses with their backs sticking out of the windows passed by. On the square of three stations, a tail of those wishing to get into the metro crawled out of the passage and went up to the entrance to the Leningradsky station. It was possible to get into the subway only at Turgenevskaya.

11:53 Moscow transport ‏@mos_trans

A policeman explains to metro passengers where the public transport stop is.

Photo: RIA Novosti

To travel from/to the closed metro station "Krasnye Vorota" - use trolleybuses "B" (additional buses are running along the Garden Ring) and No. 24 ("Aviamotornaya").

From Komsomolskaya: trams No. 37, No. 50 - to Baumanskaya; tram No. 7 - to "Prospekt Mira", "Novoslobodskaya", trolleybus No. 14 - to "Rizhskaya".

The northern section of the Sokolnicheskaya line from Komsomolskaya almost completely duplicates the 13th tram. To "Cherkizovskaya" - trolleybus 41.

"Chistye Prudy" - trams "A", No. 3, No. 39 (to Novokuznetskaya, Tretyakovskaya), trolleybus No. 9 (to Lubyanka, Kuznetsky Most, Sukharevskaya, Prospekt Mira).

From Lubyanka - walk to the Kitay-Gorod metro station or trolleybus No. 9 (Sukharevskaya, Prospekt Mira), trolleybus No. 63 (Taganskaya), No. 25 (Baumanskaya). Bus No. 158 ("Paveletskaya"), as well as routes around the Kremlin: buses "K", No. 12ts, trolleybuses No. 2 ("Arbatskaya"), No. 12 ("Pushkinskaya"), No. 33 ("Oktyabrskaya").

"Okhotny Ryad" - bus No. 12ts and trolleybuses No. 1, No. 12 to "Pushkinskaya" and "Belorusskaya".

"Lenin Library" - routes around the Kremlin (to "Kitay-Gorod", for example), as well as trolleybuses No. 2, No. 44 to "Kutuzovskaya" and "Victory Park".

"Kropotkinskaya" - trolleybuses No. 1 ("Polyanka"), No. 16 ("Taganskaya"), No. 33 ("Oktyabrskaya"), No. 2, No. 44 ("Kutuzovskaya", "Victory Park"), No. 15, No. 31 ("Arbatskaya", "Pushkinskaya").

"Park Kultury" - trolleybuses "B" (along the Garden Ring), No. 10, No. 79 ("Smolenskaya", "Mayakovskaya"), No. 31 ("Pushkinskaya", "Trubnaya").

To travel to the southern section of the Sokolnicheskaya Line to the University, use trolleybus No. 28 from Park Kultury.

Everything further than the "University" towards the "Yugo-Zapadnaya" is either trolleybus No. 34 from the "Kievskaya" or routes from the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line.

To the "University": bus No. 119 from "Akademicheskaya", bus No. 130 or trolleybus No. 49 from "Profsoyuznaya", bus No. 103 from "Novye Cheryomushki".

To "Prospect Vernadsky": bus No. 224 from "Kaluzhskaya" and No. 616 from "Novye Cheryomushki".

To the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station: buses No. 226 from Kaluzhskaya, No. 261, No. 752 from Belyaevo, No. 196, No. 250, No. 699 from Konkovo, No. 144, No. 227, No. 281 from Teploye Stana".

Also, don’t forget about high-speed bus No. 902 from Kievskaya to Novo-Peredelkino.

11:53

Ministry of Emergency Situations: 10 meters of cable burned in the metro.

11:50 Tatyana Korobeinik

At the Culture Park I saw a Jaguar, which offered voters a ride along the way.

11:39 Interfax

All those hospitalized in Moscow hospitals after the fire in the metro will most likely be released home by the evening, Leonid Pechatnikov, deputy mayor of the capital for social policy, told reporters on Wednesday.

“There are no severe carbon monoxide poisonings; they received preventive treatment. Most likely, all hospitalized people will be released home by the evening,” Pechatnikov added.

11:39 Interfax

“There are no people in the cars on the sections of the Sokolnicheskaya Line, the evacuation is completed,” said the head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow, Viktor Biryukov, commenting on reports on the Internet that there are allegedly still people on some sections of the Sokolnicheskaya Line.

11:30 Dmitry Panteleenko

A video appeared online of how people got out of the tunnel.

11:26 Anton Kravtsov

This is what the area of ​​three stations looked like. The most desperate people tried to get on the subway. The red line has been closed.

11:22 Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Moscow

According to updated information, during the elimination of a cable fire on the section between the Okhotny Ryad and Lenin Library metro stations, 4,500 people were evacuated. Psychologists are working on site. The Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for Moscow recommends using ground public transport. From the Park Kultury metro station there are trolleybuses of routes No. 15, No. 31; from the Komsomolskaya metro station, bus routes No. 14, No. 41; from the metro station "Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad" tram routes No. 7, No. 13.

11:19 Ministry of Emergency Situations

45 people went to doctors because of the fire in the metro, seven were taken to hospitals, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.

Psychologists from the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance continue to work on site.

11:17 Interfax

“Currently, many trains that must run from the Yugo-Zapadnaya station to Park Kultury disembark passengers at Sportivnaya. As a result, a huge crowd of people has formed at this station. “It’s impossible to sit down,” an Interfax correspondent reports.

11:16 PublicPost

Passengers wash off soot at the Okhotny Ryad metro station.

Photo: RIA Novosti

Photo: @angyjaltojas

11:15 Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of Moscow

Near the Komsomolskaya and Park Kultury metro stations, additional ground transport routes have been launched to transport evacuated passengers; a total of 40 buses, trolleybuses, and trams have been allocated.

10:57 PublicPost

Traffic on the red metro line will be fully restored after 13:30. The head of the Moscow metro, Ivan Besedin, told reporters about this.

10:54 Interfax

Already 40 people have consulted doctors due to a fire on the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro.

10:52 Andrey Poznyakov

Echo of Moscow correspondent Andrei Poznyakov from the Lenin Library station entered a Twitter broadcast about the evacuation:

Passengers were taken out through the first carriage along the gangway to the station. They say there was a very strong smell of smoke, such that it made you feel sick.

At the station they say that only part of the red line from Park Kultury to Yugo-Zapadnaya is operational. And, of course, the entrance to the Library was blocked, but despite all the calls, many do not leave and are waiting for the outcome.

You can no longer get to Okhotny Ryad:

As I understand it, the main forces of firefighters are at the State Duma building.

Anyone leaving the metro is asked to immediately seek medical help if they have inhaled smoke.

Ministry of Emergency Situations: two hospitalized, 4 calls, evacuation completed.

Data on the metro from the representative of the capital's Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexei Biryukov: 17 sought medical help, the same number to psychologists, two were hospitalized. Biryukov says that the evacuation on the red line has been completely completed; he refutes reports that people remain in other sections.

The head of the metro, Ivan Besedin, appeared and promised to start running trains on the red line by 13:30.

A fire hydrant was installed specifically for the passengers; some had soot and dirt on their clothes and faces.

10:47 Interfax

Two people were hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, one each to the 14th and 23rd city clinical hospitals.

Two people refused hospitalization.

10:44 Glebeus

There was a crowd on Zubovskaya Square - everyone poured out into the street. Rumors about the closure of the roundabout.

10:43 Yulia Kiseleva @yukiseleva

It's hell at Komsomolskaya. There are trains and trains coming to three stations, rush hour, the metro is closed. Trolleybuses are being taken by storm. No explanation.

10:40 @_dze_

Announcement in the metro about where to get certificates of being late for work:

10:40 Interfax

“Two victims, a six-year-old boy and a 63-year-old woman, were hospitalized at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute. The condition of both is stable,” said Oleg Salagay, press secretary of the Russian Ministry of Health.

10:35 Interfax

“In total, 31 metro passengers asked for help, four of them were hospitalized,” said Viktor Biryukov, head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow.

10:33 PublicPost

There is also smoke at the Lubyanka station - almost nothing is visible.

Photo: @liskairiska

10:32 Interfax

Due to a fire, a man’s blood pressure jumped at the Komsomolskaya-Radialnaya metro station, and an ambulance was called. “Apparently, the passenger was very nervous because of the emergency in the Moscow metro,” the police press service commented.

10:29 PublicPost

People were taken out of the tunnel at the Lenin Library - Okhotny Ryad section in a long line one after another.

Photo: @strollerk

Photo: @blondboss

10:22 PublicPost

Due to the fire, many stations on the Sokolnicheskaya (red) line are overcrowded. Escalators are for exit only. Passengers on other lines are asked to use other lines or ground transportation.

This is what the Park Kultury station looks like:

Photo: @greatswagger

And so "Komsomolskaya":

Photo: Aalerd Alerd

10:18 Youth Council under the Mayor of Moscow

The Youth Council under the Mayor of Moscow appealed to the Council of Rectors of Universities in Moscow and the Moscow Region with a proposal not to consider the lateness or failure of students to appear for exams on June 5, 2013 as absenteeism without a valid reason. Immediately after the fire at the station, the entire Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro was stopped, and difficulties arose on the circle line.

The Youth Council under the Mayor of Moscow is opening a hotline for students who were not allowed to take the exam due to the emergency.

Hotline number: 8 495 646 88 97.

09:45 Alexandra Supereka, PublicPost

The Turgenevskaya and Chistye Prudy metro stations are almost completely filled with people. The transition from Sretensky Boulevard station to Chistye Prudy station does not work. Using a megaphone, metro employees ask people not to worry and to remain calm.

09:20 Russian Emergency Situations Ministry

Train traffic from the Park Kultury metro station to the Komsomolskaya metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line has been suspended. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations recommends using ground transport.

09:10 EMERCOM of Russia

About 4,500 people were evacuated from the Moscow metro. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties or injuries.

275 people and 75 pieces of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire, including 121 people and 34 pieces of equipment from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

09:09 Interfax

“During the evacuation of passengers from the Okhotny Ryad metro station, a 28-year-old woman with poisoning from combustion products turned to doctors for help,” the police press service reports.

09:04 EMERCOM of Russia

At 09:04 Moscow time, the fire in the tunnel of the Okhotny Ryad metro station in Moscow was extinguished.

08:57 PublicPost

The entrance to the Okhotny Ryad station was closed due to heavy smoke.

08:54 Interfax

Police press service: “The cause of the fire was a malfunction in the train itself, which managed to reach the Lenin Library metro station; passengers are being evacuated.”

08:48 Interfax

Train traffic on the section from Park Kultury station to Komsomolskaya station has been temporarily suspended.

08:45 Interfax

The voltage from the cable has not yet been removed, so firefighters cannot begin extinguishing the fire. Trains carrying people were stopped in the sections near the Okhotny Ryad station.

Gray smoke can be seen rising near one of the subway's ventilation shafts.

08:41 Interfax

“A high-voltage cable caught fire on the Sokolnicheskaya Line near the Okhotny Ryad metro station, and passengers are being evacuated from the station,” a law enforcement source told Interfax.

The press service of the capital's head office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations clarified to Interfax that the cable was burning in the section between the Okhotny Ryad station and the Lenin Library.

Photo: @strollerk