Chapter Polar EMERCOM: avalanche later, when the opportunity arose – RIA Novosti

MURMANSK, February 20 – RIA Novosti. Staff avalanche service let down an avalanche in Khibiny, which claimed the lives of three people, then, when the opportunity to do so due to weather conditions, according to

Acting Head of EMERCOM of Russia in the Murmansk region, Colonel Alexander Frolov. On Thursday evening in district Komsomolskaya street in the neighborhood Kukisvumchorr Kirovsk local avalanche service intentionally provoked the avalanche. As a result, snow dust covered the train tracks, highway, several nearby houses, some apartments were broken windows. Three people were killed. Investigators opened a criminal case and arrested the chief of anti-avalanche service of JSC “Apatit”.

According to Frolov, the avalanche was incredible volume – about 200 thousand cubic meters, this will not remember even the old-timers. However, especially the snow in the mountains no one “saving up”, perhaps sooner pull the avalanche was impossible, said the representative of Ministry of Emergency Situations.

“The whole week was a snowstorm, there was no rise without risk. When there was a” window “up (experts), at the risk of his life laid explosives Believe me, people do not sit in place smoothly and does not think about how to take time off they honestly work When was the possibility, if made, “-… said Frolov journalists

According to him, everything that happened – a tragic set of circumstances, and today the task of specialists – to draw conclusions, to prevent a recurrence of the situation. Frolov also explained that in Soviet times, in the center of avalanche safety were mortar and artillery installation, which allowed to fire an avalanche bottom with minimal risk. Subsequently, all the artillery units had to pass. Today “lavinschikam” need to climb to the crest of the mountains to lay explosives that can be dangerous for the specialists themselves.