Firefighters rescued a family from a burning cottage in Ufa

UFA, 18 December 2015. /Bashinform News Agency, Olga Murtazina/. In Ufa, overnight into December 18 a fire broke out in the Nizhegorodka residential district. According to the "Detachment 22 Federal Firefighting Service RB" an entrance and the first floor went on fire in a private house in Bauman Street. There was a woman with two minor children in the house. They could not leave the burning premises independently. The victims were evacuated through the window of the second floor. 24 emergency officers and nine equipment units worked at fire extinguishing. Presumably, the fire occurred due to improper use of gas heating system.