"As part of the audit, an assessment will be made of compliance with fire safety legislation, the timeliness of the response of emergency services, the completeness of actions and decisions regarding this family by the authorities for the prevention of neglect of minors," the press release says.

The prosecutor of Surgut personally went to the scene to coordinate the work of law enforcement agencies.

As TASS clarified in the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the message about the fire in the country house was received at 02:03 (00:03 Moscow time), at 03:07 (01:07 Moscow time) the fire was extinguished.

Earlier, a case was opened in the Perm Territory after the death of four children as a result of a fire in a private wooden house.