At night at 00:38, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Khmelnitsky region received a report of a fire on the territory of the Privoz market on Lvovskoe Highway in Khmelnitsky; a passer-by noticed smoke in one of the buildings, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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The press service of the State Emergency Service reported this.
“Upon arrival at the scene of the fire, rescuers found that the Shashlychnaya catering building with a nearby utility room on an area of 170 sq.m. was on fire. There is a threat of fire spreading to nearby retail kiosks,” the report says.
State Emergency Service workers managed to extinguish the fire in its early stages, and neighboring kiosks were saved from the fire.
21 personnel using 6 units of firefighting and special equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire.
The fire was localized at 1:04 and extinguished at 1:30. As a result of the fire, some of the goods were destroyed and a kiosk and catering facility were damaged.
Experts are now determining the cause of the fire.