Posted on 04/03/2016 9:16:11 AM PDT by AdmSmith
A fire ripped through a Russian Defense Ministry building in central Moscow on Sunday, sending plumes of smoke over the Russian capital as fire fighters battled to extinguish the blaze.
Around 50 people were reported to have been evacuated from the administrative building, which dates from the end of the eighteenth century. Nobody was reported to have been hurt.
Photographs from the scene showed fire fighters scaling ladders to access the building’s upper floors with fire engines pumping water through hoses placed on the ground floor. Traffic through central Moscow was diverted.
Major-General Igor Konashenkov, on the scene, told the Interfax news agency that the flames had been put out, but that work was continuing to extinguish parts of the building that were still generating smoke and smouldering.
A source told Interfax the fire may have started as a result of a short circuit involving old electrical wiring. The Emergency Situations Ministry said the fire had covered an area of at least 50 square metres.
The Defense Ministry told Interfax the fire would not hamper its operations.
Accident or sabotage?
Oh yeah, I’m sure that can happen by accident.
Okay which one of you pyromanic Freeper set this on Fire
Only the muslim cleaning crew knows for sure...
When looking for the cause of the fire it might be of interest to know that this old building houses the departments in charge of procurement and services.
Corruption. Anyone?
For now I’ll put my money on Soviet era construction techniques and quality control.
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I would not bet against you.
No bets on someone wanting to destroy records?
“the administrative building, which dates from the end of the eighteenth century.”
Could be an issue.
It is always sad when old (and new) buildings are destroyed, but the origin of the fire could be something discussed here
https://twitter.com/search?q=%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F
ISIS sleeper working in the maintaince department? Or doing a better job of destroying embarrassing files than Hitlery ever dreamed of.
Either it was a normal accident, probably related to bad electricity wiring or it was arson.
In an hour we can read about a leak from Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca & Co.
They needed to permanently seal some critical documents.
Better a Russian Defense Ministry building in central Moscow
Than another Russian Sub problem.
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