“The firefighters reacted by the rank of the fire 2. Upon arrival at the place, the rank was reduced to rank 1. One person was killed, a woman, the identity is being established,” the Interfax press service reports.
Earlier, a criminal case was opened in Moscow after the death of a woman and her child in a fire.
The kp.ru portal also reported that the head of the fire department of the Buryat village of Nizhniy Sayantuy, Nikolai Medvedev, saved three children from a burning neighbor's house outside of office hours.