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Russian Office Building Fire Video

Here is a video of an office building fire (9 stories), from Firehouse.com via Roanoke Firefighters.

WARNING: The video contains graphic scenes.

This video has good footage of an aerial ladder being put to use, master streams, EMS crews, and other apparatus.

Here is an excerpt from the Firehouse.com article:

Prosecutors have charged two more people in connection with an office-building blaze last week that killed nine people in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok.

Metal gates blocking stairwells in the nine-story building trapped workers on the upper floors during last Monday's blaze. Several of the victims jumped or fell to their deaths trying to escape the smoke and flames.

Prosecutor Alexander Anikin said in comments broadcast on NTV that an employee of the state-owned Sberbank had been charged with failing to oversee fire safety at the part of the building that the bank occupied.

Posted January 31, 2006 04:10 PM  ·  Link   ·  Incidents

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