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MOSCOW, February 9 The roof caught fire in a six-story building in Moscow near the Airport metro station, there were no reports of casualties, the press reports. service of the capital's main directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
«The Crisis Management Center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Moscow received a message about a fire on Chernyakhovsky Street, building 2, where a fire was occurring on the roof of a six-story residential building. City services were immediately dispatched to the scene of the call «, the message says.
The area of the fire has grown to four thousand square meters, residents are being evacuated, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. 41 units of equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire, including two Ka-32helicopters. More than 400 people were evacuated from the burning house, emergency services reported.
As Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, firefighters are taking all measures to extinguish the fire, and assistance is being provided to residents of evacuated houses.