The cause of the fire at the terminal of the Novatek company in the port of Ust-Luga, Kingisepp district, Leningrad region, was two explosions, the head of the Kingisepp district, Yuri Zapalatsky, reported on his Telegram channel on January 21. .
Zapalatsky said that the message that two explosions had occurred at the terminal of the Novatek company in the port of Ust-Luga came from the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, by phone at 02:45 Moscow time. According to Zapalatsky, at three in the morning the district administration had already assembled a security headquarters, which brought together representatives of all federal, regional and local authorities.
At headquarters, as Zapalatsky said, the decision was made to introduce a maximum alert regime and specialists began work to locate and extinguish the fire.
The district head reported that 148 people were in the company at the time of the explosions; no victims or injuries were avoided.
“The situation is completely under control,” Zapalatsky said.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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