Powerful fire occurred early on Friday morning in 2-storied office building in center of Moscow.
Alarm about ignition in the house on Bolshaya Polyanka street 39/17 was received at about 5:00 a.m. By information of state fire fighting service of Russian Emergency Ministry over Moscow, fire spread fast over major part of offices.
By 6:30 ignition was extinguished. Several fire fighting units worked at place of accident. Area of fire exceeded 600 sq. km.
During extinguishing of fire there was a threat that fire will spread on apartment house, situated near-by. In this view residents of house were evacuated.
By Moscow traffic inspection service, because of fire traffic on street Bolshaya Polyanka was limited.
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