Wildberries warehouse is on fire in St. Petersburg

On the night of January 13 in St. Petersburg in the Pushkinsky district, the warehouse of the Wildberries marketplace caught fire, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports .

According to the department, the fire area was 5 thousand square meters. in extinguishing the fire 270 people and 57 pieces of equipment are involved . The fire has been assigned danger level five.

According to the company, people who were in the warehouse were evacuated. Sellers and buyers will receive compensation for damaged or lost items.

The preliminary cause of the fire at the Wildberries warehouse in St. Petersburg was a wiring fault. According to TASS, the fire alarm in the warehouse was turned off because it had been triggered falsely several times before. It also became known that the warehouse was not officially put into operation, it is not listed in Rosreestr, so it is under the supervision of control and supervisory authorities.

According to the latest data , the fire area was 70 thousand square meters, the fire was localized.

According to RBC, arson was previously considered as one of the versions of the fire. On January 10, a fight between migrants occurred near the warehouse, as a result of which a 33-year-old Wildberries employee with Azerbaijani citizenship was hospitalized, and a 35-year-old unemployed citizen of Tajikistan was also injured. After this, security forces raided the warehouse for several days.

According to Baza, a week before the fire in the warehouse building, the fire alarm went off several times, but each time it was false.

On November 30, the police raided the warehouse of the Wildberries marketplace in the city of Aleksin, Tula region. The security forces were interested in Russians who had recently received a passport and had not registered for military service, as well as conscripts.