Victim of deadly explosion in Odessa: “Everything was on fire, and the TV worked” – TODAY

The tragedy. The fire killed 90-year old woman and her 67-year-old neighbor. Photo: dumskaya.net

The fire killed an elderly landlady and her neighbor in intensive care – a child with burns

In Odessa, on the street. Posmitnogo, 20, in the area of ​​the 7 th station of Big Fountain on Monday around 17:45 exploded gas boiler in the apartment on the second floor of a five-story building. The total area of ​​the subsequent fire was 60 square meters. m, and the fire that destroyed seven apartments, 19 rescuers struggled. As a result, injured four people, including a 6-year-old girl, who is in intensive care with burns.

 

Director of Health gordepartamenta Igor Shpak said that the baby had already regained consciousness, doctors are watching her positive dynamics. In city hospitals were hospitalized 92-year-old woman with a leg injury, the 36-year-old woman with a concussion and 21-year-old man with head injuries – they are all in the mind, a psychologist working with them. At the scene were killed 90-year-old owner of the apartment in which the explosion, and her 67-year-old neighbor, bedridden.

 

 

Fire. The fire covered 60 square meters. On-site work 19 rescuers. Photo: dumskaya.net

 

As a result of the explosion, which was heard in the area w / station, six kilometers from the place of state of emergency, collapsed floors of balconies on both sides of the building, hit 8 apartments, a beauty salon and a car parked at the entrance. Shards and fragments, iron bars scattered in a radius of 20 meters from the epicenter of the explosion, and the window frame hung on the trees.

 

 

Rescuers said that the gas hose has been disconnected from the plate

 

 

The police on the fact of explosion opened criminal proceedings, preliminary his article “Violation of fire safety requirements.” Rescuers reported that 22 fire victims are temporarily placed in the hotel, and deputy chief of State GSCHS in Odessa Oblast, Mikhail Vovk said that the blast occurred due to gas. Allegedly, in the apartment where the accident happened, the gas hose has been completely disconnected from the plate. “In addition, it was not a factory sample and the water”, – said the rescuers. However, the final conclusions will be presented by law enforcement officers after the examinations.

 

At the scene of the utility is already cleaned up, only the second floor of the house blackened by soot. Residents say much scared of sudden explosions and fires, although the smell of gas, as in the leak, not heard

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“I was awakened by the roar – flew into the bathroom wall collapsed cornices, wall of bricks flew Everything was on fire, and the TV worked.” – He told us a resident of a neighboring apartment Lily. Having had time to collect the most necessary, a woman with things until the night sitting in the yard. Her slippers were evacuated directly through the window – the entrance to the balcony filled up with debris

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Ruin. Experts estimate damage to the victims and psychologists. Photo:
od.npu.gov.ua

 

An elderly woman, a veteran of the war, in an apartment which has exploded pot, lived alone. “Two sons, it seems, in Moscow”, – says Alexander neighbor. She herself was in the house rented apartment, says, survived few:. “Now in all black Our 92-year-old mother glass to cut the leg in the hospital does not have to have a dime, free moved things to the familiar to the country, but the apartment is looking for themselves “.

 

EVE SP HOUSE checks

 

The vice-mayor, Anatoly Orel said in a briefing that the house on the street. Posmitnogo already partially restored electricity and water. “Work on the glazing started back in the day of the accident there now staff the design institute, which will give an opinion on the work that must be done Count the amount of damage -.. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of hryvnia,” – said the official, adding that just before the incident, the gas service was checking the victim home.

 

Meanwhile, as reported in the hardware of the meeting director of the municipal Department of Defense work, civil protection and cooperation with law enforcement authorities Grigory Zubov, just now in Odessa check fire safety of buildings – already inspected 70%. Official results have not yet, but we know that the safest regions – Kyiv and Malinowski. There have checked all high-rise buildings, and Suvorov district as of May 23 Check only 71 house of 129.

 

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After the fire. Fully restored until only one house. Photos from the archives of “Today”

Residents of three private houses on the street. Radial, burned-out New Year’s Eve due to careless handling of pyrotechnics, told “Today” that aid in the restoration of property and had the power, and concerned citizens. Then the men were sleeping, covered with polyethylene, and the mayor’s office decided that you need to repair about 100 thousand. UAH.

 

“The authorities have done all that was promised:. Restored the walls and roof in January, the weather conditions were unfavorable for the construction, because the work was delayed by about two months”, – he told the “Today” a resident of the house on the street. Radial, 35-well, Ivan Petkov.

 

The hostess burnt house №31 Oksana Vovk admitted that after the tragedy they passed the car of sand and 16 bags of cement, and its namesake neighbor says that officials have allocated financial aid and building materials, but fully restored until one house. “They say we are on the waiting list,” – confessed to us Arseniy Vovk

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