In Fryazin, near Moscow, a large fire raged in an office building on Zavodsky Proezd. To escape, people jumped out of windows. According to preliminary data, eight people died. Almost 100 companies were registered in the building, including those with hazardous industries.
What happened in Fryazino
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, reports appeared that in the science city of Fryazino near Moscow, a Russian radio-electronic defense industry enterprise was burning at the address: Zavodskoy proezd, 2. More than ten people were trapped in the building engulfed in fire. According to the SHOT telegram channel, emergency personnel were able to quickly save three of them using a fire escape. But the rest were trapped on the eighth floor. To avoid suffocation, they broke windows. Horrible footage of these people waving their hands and calling for help has spread across the Internet. Then two of them could not stand the heat and jumped down, both died. After some time, flames and smoke killed six more people. At this time, it is unknown whether anyone is alive in the building.
The fire was assigned the third rank of complexity. More than 100 people, 40 pieces of equipment and two Ka-32 helicopters are working at the emergency site. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire first engulfed the fifth and sixth floors, and within minutes spread to the seventh and eighth. Extinguishing was greatly complicated by high temperatures and dense smoke. At approximately 17:00 Moscow time, a strong explosion occurred in the burning building and the interfloor ceilings collapsed. Previously, gas cylinders inside detonated.
In addition to the dead, there are injured. All those rescued from the building required oxygen masks, they were handed over to doctors and hospitalized. One is in intensive care. Two firefighters also required medical attention. They also suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning.
A SHOT source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that, preliminary, the cause of the fire was a violation of safety regulations. The fire could have started in one of the production workshops. Perhaps workers forgot to turn off equipment when leaving their jobs.
The tenant of a building in a burned-out building in Fryazin, near Moscow, told SHOT that the fire alarm systems were not working. The building itself was old.
Who owns the building and what is in it?
Initially, all media reported that the building of the Platan Research Institute, which is associated with the domestic defense industry and is engaged in the development of electron beam devices, semiconductor lasers and liquid crystal screens, was on fire.
However, the Ruselectronics holding, which includes Platan, has already denied this information. They claim that the object became private property back in the late nineties and since then has not been related to the research institute.
As for the alleged owner, you can find advertisements on the Internet for renting out space in the burnt building.
It was posted by a certain Alexey, a representative of Bella LLC. She is registered at the same address. Field of activity: real estate management.
The company has many problems: closed court debts of nine million and current debts of more than six million. These are utility bills. Information about him in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities is recognized as unreliable. During an audit, the Federal Tax Service established that it was not at the specified address. Tax officials blocked accounts. The general director of the company is 65-year-old Valery Obraztsov. He comes from Murmansk and has a residence permit in the Leningrad region, in a good-quality cottage in the Tosnensky district. Bella's beneficiary Tatyana Belousova is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. She was born in the city of Petropavlovka, Dnepropetrovsk region.
When bailiffs were looking for her for debts in 2020, she was in Ukraine. Now she may be in Montenegro. At the very least, she joined several public pages about relocation to Montenegro and joined chats where they discussed how to convert rubles into local currency.
As Life.ru found out, the building that caught fire has an area of 22,500 square meters. According to directories, there are 16 enterprises located inside.
Among them are several industries that could potentially be a fire hazard: the Virom Tech confectionery company, the Technoservice and Teksma metal plants, the Lloveras Rus company that assembles food equipment, and the Potok Project, a dairy-related enterprise. Obviously, this is just the tip of the iceberg. According to the SPARK database, about 100 operating companies of various profiles are registered in the fire building in Zavodsky Proezd.
By the way, despite the fact that the building was sold, the land under it is still classified as “For housing industrial and production activities (under the Science building – the high-rise part).” This is how this area is designated in the Unified State Register of Real Estate.
Life.ru found on the Fryazin administration website the results of a recent checks civil defense protective structure at this address: the tightness is not ensured, the waterproofing is broken, combustible materials were used during finishing. From the results of the audit it also follows that the building, which previously belonged to the Platon Research Institute, was indeed privatized. But the protective structure was not subject to privatization and remained the property of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism).