"The streets burned in ten minutes"

On May 24, in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Komsomolskaya streets burned, 1st initiative, 2nd initiative, folk, state farm and others. The fire destroyed 73 houses, three people were killed, 57 were injured. Most of the fireworks believe that the fire occurred due to the fault of the city administration

In Kansk is so smoky that you can’t see an outstretched arm. On the scorched land, confused and tired people roam, dig in burned things and pepley. There is nothing to breathe. A nasty smoked aftertaste instantly settles in the mouth.

Passport and dog

Nikolai goes to the ashes to find one of his own. His relatives burned the house. Since yesterday evening, he lost touch with them - the phones do not work, perhaps the devices burned out. The photographer and I will take him by car.

-Did you manage to save something? - I shout to a tall gray -haired man who rushes about in his burnt area.

- Once, girl, once. That's just a few cans with jam and a bag of potatoes survived. No need to shoot them. And then the administration will think that I do not need to help, since my potato has survived.

Nicholas comes up and, smiling with a packed, briefly reports: “Found. Nephew. "
It turns out that the rest of his relatives are alive and healthy, they were settled in a hotel at the administration. And the phones really burned.

The nephew's name is Misha. The young guy rubs the red either from the burning or from tears and says: “There is nothing. What was, in Vetrovka, jumped out. In 10 minutes, all three streets burned down. ”

“Come in, here is my house, here is my gate,”-the old-timer of the village of Builders Alexei Jen Shan shows a charred doorway with a mailbox, behind which there is nothing. This is all that remains of the house where he lived for more than forty years.

Alexey Gen Shan on the ashes of his house on the street of the 2nd initiative photo: Anton Petrov for TD

A bunch of melted glass under the feet. “Here my wife and I had a sideboard with tea sets,” the man explains.

There were many dishes. Like pickles, in the banks. Alexey Jen Shan takes them out of a burned cellar with fishing hook on a stick and hopes to find at least something surviving. “All that managed to save was documents, but they grabbed light clothes and stuffed them into the car.”

“Several cans with jam and a bag of potatoes survived. No need to shoot them. And then the administration will think that I do not need to help, since my potato has survived "

Now Alexei Jen Shan and his wife Lidia Ivanovna live with her daughter, in a few streets. Their daughter, a pretty youthful woman with a bundle on her head, invites us inside: "Just do not cut off, I still have to wash the floors." The things of the fire of fire are piled in a pile on the couch.

“My husband and I have nowhere to sleep here, nowhere else, my daughter has a small house, and my grandchildren live here and mother -in -law,” Lidia Ivanovna shows us a tiny room, more like the hallway. Narrow sofa, yes shelf.

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“But we saved all the chickens,” Lidia Ivanovna leads us to the shed and shows a large box. Chickens are clinging to each other, scary terribly, require food. Lidia Ivanovna throws them with soaked green onions. - When it all started, we first grabbed the documents and things, and then chopped chicken into a heap and in their box.

The dog was also saved - a large black dog on a leash welcomes the hostess with a loud bark. “Dick, our wild” - affectionately fluttered his ears by Lidia Ivanovna.

At the time of the fire, many dogs were on a leash. People in panic saved children, passports, dragged things, ran out of what they were. Dogs, cats, chickens, homemade cattle burned alive.

Black dog named Hera was saved by neighbors, untied from the chain. The owner of the house was not at the time of the fire. He arrived the next day, looked at what was left of his house ... The dog was waiting for the ashes correctly.

“Now I have only a passport and a dog. Two cats and hens burned. Thank God, the wife was in the city that day. We only planted the garden, and now ... ” - Pogorelets Viktor Beletsky complains.

Burned houses and cars photo: Anton Petrov for TD Burned tree photo: Anton Petrov for TD Residents of Kansk came to look at the houses that burned out during the fire photo: Anton Petrov for TD

On the ashes, on a completely burnt out street, a little red dog wanders ... I give her a slice of sausage from a sandwich, which I took from the house. She eats gratefully. Then he sits down in front of the house, which is no longer there - only concrete walls - and sobs, whines ... I also cry, stroke it, it falls on my back, substitutes my stomach. The eyes are all black from soot and soot. Then he lies in front of the house, curls up with a ball. And no one else is on the street, only she is alone, but the onlookers sometimes come to stroke in the place where the swings creaked a day ago, the neighbors cashed, and people flowed in a measured life with their minor concerns ...

- Horror! A terrible business. Everything burned out in a swing. I run out, the roof is burning at the house, and the fire has already spread to the bathhouse. There was nothing to save there, and the firefighters did not have time, - the burllar of Svetlana Shashilo groans.

- There were three guys, they would write about them, they ran and helped everyone. Where did these guys come from? - says Lyudmila Ivanovskaya, a resident of the village. - Here I was saved the refrigerator, there are products. And they themselves were good. Thank you very much! You already print about them.

The sawmill is to blame

A guys in specialists work near the road. Restore damaged electric communication. They claim that the fire began with a sawmill, which is separated from the burned streets of one fence.

According to local residents, they have repeatedly turned to the head of Kansk Nadezhda Kachan with a request to close the sawmill or force workers to take the sawdust for disposal, and not burn them in the place, in the residential area, next to the houses. But the residents did not achieve the result.

Smoke from smoldering waste wood processing photo: Anton Petrov for TD Smushing woodworking waste Photo: Anton Petrov for TD Firefighters on a sawmill extinguish smoldering woodworking waste photo: Anton Petrov for TD

“Yesterday on TV, the“ top ”said so, they say, people themselves are to blame. They threw everything to the people. Either the burning, or someone threw a cigarette, ”says Maxim (he asked not to name his last name).

The day before, Kansk was very hot, at 30 degrees, and then a cooling was supposed to come. As always, when changing the weather, a stormy wind rose, which still does not subside. In such weather, even a small spark can cause a fire.

“Yesterday on TV, the“ top ”said so, they say, people themselves are to blame. They threw everything to the people "

“We can’t call the cause of fires yet,” Alexander Yakimov, head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, reports by phone from Krasnoyarsk. -In Kansk there was a strong wind and the threat of spread of fire, so the fire belt and Mi-8 helicopter was used there, which threw water with the help of a water-wandering device. There was a threat of fire transition to potentially dangerous objects. The forces were thrown to cool potentially dangerous buildings, fire barrels were served on them. At the moment, the fire has been liquidated, but the brigades continue to work. ”

Olga Tarasova’s house miraculously remained intact, like a couple of houses, because they are on the outskirts.

Olga Tarasova photo: Anton Petrov for TD

- We have firefighters from Georgievka ( the village of Georgievka, Kansky district. - TD ), and not ours, not Kansky, repelled our homes! George firefighters need to write gratitude! And ours, when they called, they said: "You do not care, you burned out."

“The whole village saw where the fire began - from the sawmill,” the local resident Natalya Sosnina picks up. They had these sawdust with a three -story house. The fire spread through the fence, and that’s all .. People as they jumped out. And the wind is so strong - 30 meters per second. All! At once the houses flashed. And what about the Chinese? They grabbed their bags and ran out of the territory. Yes, they live there. Our locals do not work there. And this is not the first time the Chinese are set on the sawdust. How much they called, wrote to the head of the city! At least do something: we are constantly in this smoke, how we live on a powder barrel! Last year, in the summer, too, the territory of the sawmill was burning.

Due to the fence where the sawmill is located, there is a strong smoke. We find an opening in the fence, climb into the territory and feel that we begin to choke. Having shut up the nose and mouth, we pass further, wrap and see something like a tractor, near which two men are lazily wandering.

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- What burns here?

“Nothing burns,” one answers slurred.

- How nothing? - Before me is a huge bunch of smoldering sawdust.

- Where does it burn?

- Before your nose! - I feel like a heroine of an absurd play. - Everything is on your territory. You don't see?

- Nothing burns.

- And then what are you doing here?

- We are just standing.

The master of Vakha Ibrahimov does not agree that the fire began with a sawmill.

- The fire did not start here, but in the village. Apparently, someone set fire to the grass. It brought here the wind. And the fact that the inhabitants complain that the sawdust is burning here, so you write that the authorities do not give a specially designated place for dumping sawdust.

Burned houses photo: Anton Petrov for TD A burned house on the street folk photo: Anton Petrov for TD 2nd initiative street in smoke from smoldering waste wood processing photo: Anton Petrov for TD

It is known that the territory of the timber industry belongs to the Chinese company Sin-I LLC, and they rent this site. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the only founder of Sin-I LLC is China Liu Shaolin. The company is engaged in the trade in timber. To date, it is known that “the administration of Kansk and the city department of supervisory activities are searches: investigators are looking for documents from which it would become clear what relations connected by local officials with illegal entrepreneurs,” Radio Liberty reports.

On the website of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Territory, it is reported: “The fire is established - an industrial enterprise, the head of which is currently detained by police officers. 57 people turned to medical institutions of Kansk with burns, two of them are hospitalized. ”

According to the latest data, the number of those killed in fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory increased to three people. “During the extinguishing of a fire in a house located along Lesnaya Street, house 4, the body of an 87-year-old owner of the house was found with traces of high temperatures. The cause of his death is established ".... “The investigating authorities of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case, part 2 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code (negligence, i.e., non -fulfillment or improper performance by an official of his duties due to an unscrupulous or careless attitude to the service that entailed by negligence the death of a person), ”the SK website reports around the region.
Earlier in the city of Kansk, the bodies of men and women were found.

Help Pogorelians

I’m trying to find out what actions are taken by the administration to help the fireworks, and why a potentially dangerous enterprise works in the city. In the city administration, we are first refused in the commentary, referring to a meeting at the head of the city of Nadezhda Kachan. I try it again in an hour.

Ruins at home on the street of the 2nd initiative photo: Anton Petrov for TD

“I can't tell you anymore.” She is busy. She has a meeting one after another. I’ll get up at five o’clock and leave work, ”Olga Persian public relations specialist answers me by phone.

- Then I write in the article: the administration refused the comments.

- Yes, for God's sake! Are you engaged in blackmail? If you write so, we will sue your newspaper.

“I'll write down everything from your words.” You could not reach the head of the city, being with her in the same building?

“I suggest you come on Monday.”

- You have a kansk, and you suggest that I come in three days?

- Now the selector will end, I'll talk to her.

While the court is the case, we are going to the Pogorelians' assistance point. The stream of people who bring Bauls with things here, it seems, will never end. They carry clothes, toys, baby food, household chemistry, plaid, shoes. A woman rises along the steps, drags seven packages at once: “My grandmother is blind, a veteran of war, she told me to take all the things to the fireworks. And she said: I am still blind, I no longer need. "

Ksenia Pukalova, a young mother of three children, cries and says: “We have a large family. We only made repairs, only put new windows for maternity capital, and everything burned down. They managed to pull out the TV. From the administration we have already transferred 60 thousand rubles - 10 thousand each for each family member. ”

Fire in Kansk. We thank the resident of Kansk Alexei Agudov for the photos provided

After some time, I finally manage to talk on the phone with the head of the city Nadezhda Kachan.

- Today, all the fireworks are located in the municipal hotel and are provided with everything necessary. Food in the dining room is three -time, free (we visited the dining room at the administration and saw that the employees of the Ministry of Emergencies working in fires were fed for free). Today ( May 26. - TD ) in the accounts everyone has 10 thousand rubles per person. 25 lost passports, 23 documents, mind you, brought to the house so that people did not waste time in the FMS. Seven points of assistance to the victims are organized, where residents bring things and products. It is clear that now the question arises about housing. The development of a four -story building has begun. The sixty -thousandth house on August 1 we will donate blood from the nose.

We will begin to clean the site as soon as we allow us to do this. We told people that their site was preserved. They want to plant potatoes - this is their right. From June 1, the children of Pogorelsev will go to the camp. They also opened an account of assistance, many entrepreneurs want to help. We created a commission of social activists of seven people who will report on this money.

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-Nadezhda Nikolaevna, residents complain that they asked you to do something with a sawmill within the city, where the waste was burning, but no measures were taken.

- I save the city today, what are you! I am struggling with the Chinese! But I have no fiscal function to close them. At one of the meetings, I suggested: let's take environmental passports from them. To which the prosecutor immediately said to me: "For excess of authority, you will pay a fine." There is 294 law that today imposed a moratorium on checking a small business.

People complain: "Prosecutor's Office, take measures!" I come there today, we have not yet put out the fire, and these guys who work there are importing equipment. They are going to work tomorrow! I call the prosecutor's office today, and they say: "We will not take any actions." How is it to you?

“I save the city today! I am struggling with the Chinese! But I have no fiscal function to close them "

The next day I call to the deputy chief prosecutor of the Kansk inter -district prosecutor’s office Pavel Yuryevich Beloshevsky.

“I am not authorized to answer your questions. There is the concept of "the secret of the investigation."

Smoldering sawdust on the territory of the sawmill photo: Anton Petrov for TD

Two days after the fire, we leave Kansk and see that fire is again flared up on the territory of the sawmill. It is clear that such fires will flare up again and again until the authorities figure out who is beneficial to maintain a sawmill.

According to regional authorities, 533 people remained without housing in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Many enterprises have been destroyed. In the village of Strelka - a bakery, a housing and communal services base, a garage complex. It is not possible to get to the arrow: the highway Krasnoyarsk-Yeniseisk was blocked due to smoke. In the regional prosecutor’s office, the situation was commented on the site: houses in the village of Strelka, near Lesosibirsk, caught fire from behind forest fires.

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However, on the website of the New Gazeta publication they write: “At first, the forest processing enterprises were covered with smoke: in the northern part it caught fire on the territory of LLC“ Creal ”, in the south - the enterprise“ Lesstroy Export ”caught fire”.

In Lesosibirsk 37 residential buildings burned and waste waste burn. In the village of Malaya Ket of the Biryulsky district, 13 houses burned. In the village of Tilita, the Nizhneingash district burned a boiler room, school, dining room, 13 houses.

The court in the Krasnoyarsk Territory arrested the director of the woodworking enterprise, which is considered a source of fire in Kansk, at which two people were killed, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the region on Sunday, May 28, said.

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