More than 2000 fires killed 144 people in Bashkortostan year-to-date

UFA, 16 August 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Ksenia Kalinina/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. In Bashkortostan for seven months of 2018, 144 people were killed and 149 suffered injuries of varying severity in 2125 fires. Compared to the same period, the growth is 6.6%, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for Bashkortostan reported.

The department named the main causes of fires:

- arsons,

- malfunction of production equipment,

- violation of production technological processes,

- violation of rules for construction and operation of electrical equipment, furnaces, gas equipment, vehicles,

- violation of fire safety rules during electric and gas welding and fire works,

- careless handling of fire.