One of the visitors of the Lenta hypermarket in Tomsk, where the pyrotechnics department caught fire and an explosion of fireworks began, Nadezhda Gorbaneva, in an interview with said that the fire warning system did not work immediately. She added that the front doors to the store continued to automatically open and close, preventing people from exiting.

“I was in the New Year's department at the time of the fire. She stood with her back to the fireworks. There was panic, partial and unjustified, the situation was not critical. The boy working in this department reacted very quickly and took a fire extinguisher, well done! Many more visitors began to help extinguish the fire. The warning system did not work immediately. Before the arrival of the firefighters, the supermarket employees and customers managed to do a lot. There was a crush in the first minutes. One thing I didn’t like was that the entrance doors were not blocked, they continued to open and close, ”she said.

Earlier it became known that a fire began in Tomsk in a hypermarket of the Lenta retail chain at 59 Pushkina Street. A video appeared on the network, which showed that pyrotechnics were on fire, firecrackers and fireworks began to explode. The combustion area has reached 20 sq. m. People who were in the hall at the time of the incident began to extinguish the fireworks with fire extinguishers.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, it took more than 10 minutes to extinguish a small fire in Lenta. The operational services arrived at the place, an inspection is underway.

On December 21, a fire broke out in another Tomsk "Lenta" at the address: Elizarovykh Street, 13. The reason was arson. The amount of damage was at least 2 billion rubles. The fire engulfed the entire building, the area of ​​the fire was about 5 thousand square meters. m.

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