“There was a partial collapse of the elevator shaft,” the report said.
As noted, the residents of the house are evacuated.
“Evacuation is being carried out, the grouping of forces and assets is increasing,” the representative of emergency services added.
According to him, fire on wooden floors spreads to the upper floors. He specified that the burning house was built in 1915.
As stated in the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the capital, more than 20 people were saved in a fire.
Earlier it was reported that in a fire on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square five people were injured, they received smoke poisoning.
In June, URA.RU reported that 1,500 people were evacuated from a shopping center in Yekaterinburg due to a fire.