The fire in a police precinct building in downtown Moscow that started on Saturday evening was extinguished, head of the press service of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's main department for Moscow Yevgeny Bobylyov told Itar-Tass. Fire fighters were watering smoking structures of the building to prevent another conflagration. The signal about the fire in a six-storey building at 1, Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street came to the 01 fire service at 19:50, Moscow time, Saturday. The first floors of the building are occupied by the Tverskoye criminal police department. The upper floors house offices of different companies. “The fire started in the police department premises, policemen quickly evacuated all documentation, including electronic data carriers. The documentation was not damaged,” the city's main police department sources said. Bobylyov for his part specified that the flame base was located in an office on the third floor. “Office appliances caught fire there, but the fire on wooden ceilings partially spread to the fourth and fifth floors of the building,” the official noted. According to him, “there were no people in the building and so nobody was hurt.” The fire was extinguished with the use of special foam. Its total area did not exceed 100 square meters. According to preliminary information, a short circuit caused the fire.
