"According to preliminary data, in the evening of January 24, in the apartment on the 15th floor in an apartment building in Balashikha, during the repair work using gas cylinders, there was two cotton and a fire," Vradiy quotes TASS.

According to her, the incident damaged the wall of the house and the elevator shaft.

Earlier in a high-rise building in Balashikha there was a fire. According to the latest data, two people died.