Almost 1000 houses were left without gas in the Sverdlovsk region

RIA Novosti reports about it with reference to the Department of Information Policy of the region.

“The fire that broke out on the gas pipeline in Kachkanar was extinguished by the Emergencies Ministry at 18:50 (16:50 Moscow time).

There are no casualties.

As a result, 961 houses in the private sector were temporarily without gas, ”the statement said.

It is clarified that the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Yevgeny Kuyvashev has already given instructions to eliminate the consequences of a fire on the gas pipeline and to provide everything necessary for that part of the residents of the urban district that was temporarily left without gas.

Earlier, an explosion and fire occurred at a gas distribution center in the east of Lugansk.