Huge Fire Breaks Out at Russia’s Uralmash Machine Factory – The Moscow Times

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/04/01/huge-fire-breaks-out-at-russias-uralmash-machine-factory-a84698

by Orcasystems99

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  1. A giant fire broke out on the grounds of Uralmash, one of Russia’s largest heavy machinery factories, emergency officials said Monday.

    Footage shared online showed a plume of black smoke rising from the factory in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg.

    Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said the fire engulfed 4,500 square meters of an unidentified “workshop” and a roof collapsed onto an area of 300 square meters before the blaze was contained by Monday afternoon.

    No casualties were reported.

    Uralmash’s press service denied that the fire started inside one of its facilities and said it was not at risk of spreading.

    “The fire is on the territory of the [Uralmash] industrial site, but the building doesn’t belong to us and is far away from our production facilities,” a spokesperson told the local Ura.ru news outlet.

    **Citing unidentified sources, the Yekaterinburg news outlet E1.ru reported that the site belongs to EnergoTransStroy, a manufacturer of electric motors, generators and transformers.**

  2. I guess someone wasn’t going to meet their government mandated quota. I bet a lot of stuff went missing before multiple fires broke out at the same time with no worker deaths

  3. “Dah, all tanks made in 1903 were saved” the local Governor said whilst holding his lit cigar over the explosive barrels

  4. “… The fire started inside the workshop where transformers are produced.
    The fire quickly spread to the roof, which soon collapsed over an area of ​​300 square meters. The flames spread over an area of ​​4.5 thousand square meters. …”
    https://www-e1-ru.translate.goog/text/incidents/2024/04/01/73409036/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
    “… Over the past three years, nine lawsuits have been filed against the plant in arbitration court,
    eight of which the company lost in whole or in part.
    The cases concerned non-fulfillment of obligations under contracts. …”
    The insurance company will certainly be very interested in what was allegedly destroyed by the flames.

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