Fire at Berdyansk shopping center last night

Fire devastated a shopping mall in Berdyansk, seaport and resort city in southeastern Zaporizhzhia Region, last night. One of the firefighters who extinguished the fire that engulfed 700 square meters premises suffered a light injury, the press service of the State Emergencies Service of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region has reported.

"On July 20 at 20.39 in the rescue service has received a call about a large-scale fire in a shopping center in Berdyansk. The rescuers found at the scene that the fire engulfed about 700 square meters of the building’s 1,600 square meters total area," the report has noted.

Firefighters from adjoining districts were involved in putting off fire mobilizing a total of four vehicles and 18 firefighters.

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