There was a fire in Moscow on the territory of the electric factory. People are blocked on the upper floors of the burning building

In Moscow there was a fire in one of the buildings on the territory of the electric factory, TASS reports.

The fire is assigned the third rank of complexity. People are blocked in the building on the upper floors. Their exact number is unclear - Baza writes that there are about 30 of them, Mash reports about ten, Shot - about 50.

“To save people from the upper floors, lifting mechanisms are installed,” the Moscow Ministry of Emergencies said in a statement in the telegram channel. The department noted that 60 firefighters and 16 units of equipment work on the spot.

The Ministry of Emergencies reported that 40 people were saved from the building. Telegram channels wrote that several of them were poisoned by carbon monoxide, but the department did not confirm the presence of victims.

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