Belgorod employees of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate assisted in rescue of tenants of the burning house

Finishing watch, crew of the patrol car of the road patrol service of department of internal affairs on Rakitjansky district - the captain of militia Alexander Safonov and its partner the lieutenant of militia Alexander Sapronov, came back from watch. Passing on settlement Rakitnoe, they noticed that from windows of the second floor of a two-storeyed apartment house tongues of flame are pulled out. Approaching, militia officers saw that the second floor of the house is completely filled with fire.

Not losing minutes, captain Safonov and lieutenant Sapronov rushed to the burning house. Among the tenants standing near to a big fire which in time in haste to leave apartment, there were children and older persons. Excited pogoreltsy could not answer precisely to militia officers, whether there were in the house people, and the captain of militia Alexander Safonov entered into the burning house.

The old two-storeyed construction captured by a flame, any minute could fall, but captain Safonov all the same bypassed rooms and was personally convinced that in the house there are no people. To reduce fire distribution to ground floor premises, it closed window leaves and in order to avoid explosion blocked gas.

By the moment of arrival of a fire-fighting crew, militia officers already established that in the house there are no people, and undertook security measures, therefore firemen, not losing time, at once started fire suppression.

Tenants of the burnt down house addressed to an Internal Affairs Directorate management in Belgorod region with the request to encourage the captain of militia Alexander Safonova and the lieutenant of militia Alexander Sapronova for the help rendered at a fire.

Press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate in Belgorod region

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