TASS reported that the initial cause of the fire was electrical cables.
According to TASS, the fire alarm in the warehouse was deactivated due to repeated false alarms.
It was also established that the object was not officially commissioned. It did not appear in the official register, therefore it was not in the field of vision of the control and monitoring bodies.
The press service of the St. Petersburg Construction Directorate told Interfax that the Wildberries online store did not ask the construction directorate for permission to use the warehouse that burned down today.
“The state building directorate was not contacted to obtain permission to operate the building,” St. Petersburg’s building directorate reported.
However, Wildberries still had permission to build a warehouse complex with a total area of 105,800 square meters in Shušarõ, in the Pushkin district of St. Petersburg. It was also decided that the finished object meets the requirements of the project documentation.
The Telegram channel “Shot” reported that there were at least a thousand people in the warehouse at the time the fire started. The fire broke out during the night and day workers’ shifts.
However, the St. Petersburg portal Fontanka writes that the fire broke out in the block where the packaging film was stored and where 350 people worked, who were the first to be evacuated.
As the fire began to spread, the remaining workers were evacuated from the warehouse.
Some employees were unable to take personal items or phones with them, one employee told Fontanka.
“Passport, phone, things, keys – they said everything was burned,” the man told Fontanka.
2024-01-13 11:34:07
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