"At 08:24 Moscow time, firefighters liquidated the open burning," TASS quotes the words of a representative of the department.
Earlier it became known that more than 30 firefighters extinguish the building of the cardiac surgery center in Blagoveshchensk, the fire was assigned an increased difficulty grade.
The mayor of the city, Oleg Imameev, according to Life.ru, said that one team of doctors refused to leave the cardiology center.
The doctors continued to perform the operation on one of the patients.
It was later reported that the operation was successful.