The Fire in Moscow
Nowadays most part of the Moscow inhabitants live in so-called “bedroom communities”, districts built in the 70s and 80s on the territory of former villages that were situated close to the city at that time. These districts consist mostly of the various models of the Soviet block flats buildings that have one well known feature - the shortage in fire safety. So the possibility of fire is very undesirable thing.
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Hope there were no fatalities. Anyone has more information?
Not likely. It probably started in one apartment, and took half a day to spread. The building is all concrete, it can only spread through windows.
If apartments were’t so tiny and stuffed to the brim with flammable things, it would be impossible to set that kind of building on fire.
The smoke must have been very toxic from the paint, don’t you think?
very wrong,in every residential or office building has some kind of flammable materials like carpets,furnitures,house hold propane cylinders and thousands of flammable stuff.careless person always has to chance to start fire anywhere any time.
That big white thing in the first picture would be a good place to project a movie…
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_9d0/rururofu/8225109.jpg
Duh!!!!That big white thing is commonly known as a wall.
There’s a nice flat area for people to sit called a “park” in front of the wall, that’s what makes the wall a good place to project a movie, Marky pooh…
Duh, Matty pooh…
…at least the hallucinations are fun…
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_9d0/rururofu/8912323.jpg
The constructional quality of the buildings is poor + people have the habit of doing their own alterations in their apartment [without knowing what they are doing] in particular electricity which very often causes problems like short circuit [meaning possible fire].
The balconies are usually used as storage space and filled with all kinds of flammable crap.
The real problem besides the fire itself is absence of adequate firefighting equipment. As the first picture shows, the water cannon doesn’t reach above the third floor. I cannot call it “firefighting”. They just waited for all flammable materials in the section of the building to burn out.
The most surprising thing is that a fire like this doesn’t happen every day. Cities in Russia need to start spending money on fire safety infrastructure before it is too late. The question is not whether it’s going to happen in any large building, but when. It seems like every major city in the world needs to go though a devastating fire first hand before they do any major fire safety investment.
Cities in Russia need to start spending money on fire safety infrastructure before it is too late
Tell us where to get money… You tell to spend, but where to get money on it&
How are the current fire brigades funded?
From the secret fund.the secret insurance company was established for the survivals of nuclear war(if someone will survive).these pre cast apartment blocks are so dangerous,because of their construction techniques.Soviet engineers were force to build more in less time,they build playing card castles.when one card is falling down all castle is collapse.
It must not have been a very good secret if everyone knows about it.
Very right sir………
zafarad that is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. I mean seriously are you just going to survive a nuclear war and than come out and some one is going to give you paper money and ration tickets? what good is that? I hope that was a joke.
Maybe if you spent some of the money from maintaining your nuclear arsenal on civic construction you wouldn’t have a hundred different pictures of cars falling into sinkholes??
Just maybe if you didn’t expect to have to bribe every official and policeman that you saw you would have a little money for home improvement that doesn’t burn down your buildings…
Sorry that was a bit of a rant
How simple you are,Tim……
taxes.
They can get the money from all the petro dollars the goverment has made
Actually when these apartment buildings were constructed an escape route in case of fire was also installed - every balcony has a metal ladder and a hatch leading to the one above and below it.
Russians in general, being what they are [trusting no-one] removed the ladders in general and welded the hatch shut. Trapping themselves that way.
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