Russia in flames: 1km-wide fireball erupts as thick black smoke billows out of warehouse

A huge fire has broken out at warehouses in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok in Russia. The fire has already spread to more than 1000 square metres. Flames leaping high into the night’s sky along with plumes of thick black smoke can be seen in video footage of the inferno.

Locals in the area said that the warehouses were believed to be storing confectionary.

The storage areas are located on Kariernaya Street in the city.

Fire fighter have arrived on the scene and are trying to put out the blaze as quickly as possible

There are currently no confirmed report of injuries or fatalities

The fire is the latest in a series of huge fires that have torn through commercial and industrial buildings in Russia.

In Moscow, a fire engulfed the MEGA Khimki mall on December 9 and destroyed an OBI store, as well as killing at least one person.

On the same day another fire destroyed a warehouse in Nizhnekamsk, in the republic of Tartarstan.

The warehouse belonged to the local petrochemical company called Nizhnekamskneftekhim.

The fire broke out before dawn and spread rapidly throughout the 18,000 square metres commercial property.

Last week on Monday, a fire on almost the same scale as that in the country’s capital broke out at the Stroy Park shopping centre in Balashikha in the Moscow region.

The fire engulfed 11,000 square metres, according to local media reports.

The cause of the blaze is believed to have been an electrical short circuit.

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A report by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti said that last year there were only three such incidents and only one in 2020.

Some suspect the work of arsonists, who are trying to create panic among the public and to “break” the logistics of enterprises.

However, there has been no official confirmation that the fires are part of some deliberate plan to disrupt the Russian economy.

Officially, the fires have all been caused by different reasons.

 

source: express.co.uk