Five people were killed in 32 fires over three days in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Five people died in 32 fires over three days in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, a tense situation with fires is developing in the region. According to the information, by all indicators there has been a significant deterioration compared with the same period in 2025. Thus, already in the first three holiday days 32 fires occurred in the region. Five people died in them. Another three were injured. According to Sergey Bolshakov, deputy head of the supervisory and preventive work department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region, most of the fires occurred in the residential sector of Nizhny Novgorod and Bor. Among the main causes of the fires are careless smoking, faulty electrical wiring, and failure to comply with fire safety requirements when using stove heating. The deaths of citizens were contributed to by alcohol consumption and the absence of fire alarms in the homes.
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Five people died in 32 fires over three days in the Nizhny Novgorod Region
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