< strong>VOLGOGRAD, June 14 Experts say the fire at the Novocherkasskaya GRES in the Rostov region was caused by gas fire during technological work at the station, Governor of the region Vasily Golubev said on his Telegram channel.
According to preliminary information, the roof on the 6th power unit caught fire. At 14.50 (coincides with Moscow time) open burning was eliminated. The fire area is 200 square meters. There is no threat of the spread of fire, 150 employees of the state district power station were evacuated. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there were no casualties.
«Information about the explosion has not been confirmed. Experts say a possible cause was a gas fire during technological work at the station,» Golubev said in his Telegram channel.
In the press service The station reported that at the moment the power plant does not supply electricity to the unified energy system, the causes of the fire are being investigated. «During the planned work, a gas-air mixture was released, followed by combustion. External influences are excluded,» said Sergey Filippov, head of the regional head office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, in a video distributed by the press service of the department.