The fire in a dwelling house in the Moscow city centre has been extinguished. Central Administration of Russian Emergency Ministry in Moscow has reported no casualties.

The cause of fire is being detected. Earlier media reported about four affected people hospitalized.

The information about the fire in a dwelling house in Maly Kokovinsky side street appeared at 5.18 a.m. Moscow time. At the moment when fire brigades appeared at the scene, the fire had already took ground, first and second floors of the four-storey building , and the area of ignition constituted over 300 square meters.

The fire was assigned the second level of difficulty by five point scale. About 40 fire brigades participated in it. By 8 a.m. the fire was localized, but it was extinguished only in an hour and a half. Fight with fire took about four hours.
sections: Accidents, Region News
areas: Central region