The Ministry of Emergency Situations named the possible cause of the fire in an apartment building in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The cause of the fire in the apartment of an apartment building in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which killed four people, could be the ignition of combustible materials from an open fire source. This was reported on December 30 in the press service of the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kamchatka Territory.

"One of the most likely causes of the fire is the ignition of combustible materials from an open fire source," the VKontakte press service said.

It is specified that there were two fires in the apartment: the first in the corridor, the second in the children's room.

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The fire in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was reported on December 29. As a result of the incident, four people were killed. At the same time, the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case into the deaths of people in a fire.

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