ST. PETERSBURG, February 29. A fire occurred in the port of St. Petersburg on the icebreaker Ermak, which is being dismantled, said Andrey Litovka, head of the press service of the city GUMCES.
«At the berth there is a diesel-electric icebreaker «Ermak», which is being dismantled, there is a fire on the lower deck — garbage is burning in a room on an area of 20 square meters. I remind you that this icebreaker is being dismantled,» he said in a video posted on the department’s Telegram channel.
The fire was reported at the address: Kirovsky district, 3rd district of the Sea Port at 11.23. There have been no reports of casualties at this time. The Ministry of Emergency Situations involved 12 units of equipment and 46 people in extinguishing the fire.
The North-Western Transport Prosecutor's Office later reported that it had begun an investigation after the fire on the icebreaker. “The North-Western Transport Prosecutor’s Office is checking the implementation of fire safety legislation following a fire on the unused icebreaker Ermak in the large port of St. Petersburg,” the department’s Telegram channel reports.
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