MOSCOW, January 31 – RIA Novosti. about 350 specialists second day continue to fight a fire in the building of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) Russian Academy of Sciences, told RIA Novosti, the representative of the operational headquarters on the site of an emergency.
Information about the fire on the top floor of a three storey building came on Friday evening. The area of the fire was about 2 thousand square meters, the roof collapsed over an area of 1 thousand square meters, as well as part of the outer wall of the building. Fire fighting lasted more than 12 hours on Saturday morning fire was localized.
“As of 22.35, to extinguish the fire involved 345 people and 102 pieces of equipment,” – said the source.
According to him, continues spilling debris and demolition of building structures. Vapor content in the air of harmful substances in the normal range, mobile laboratory continues to conduct measurements of air samples.
As explained RIA Novosti deputy head of the capital’s central board of Emergencies Ministry Alexander Gavrilov, a library building at the time of the fire were all serviceable fire suppression systems and fire protection .
INION – the largest research centers in Russia in the field of social sciences and humanities. His collection consists of 14.2 million copies in the ancient and modern Eastern European and Russian languages, including rare editions XVI – early XX centuries. The library has the most complete, and in some cases only in Russia collection of documents of the League of Nations, the UN and UNESCO, parliamentary reports USA (1789), England (1803), Italy (since 1897) and one of the largest in Russia collections of books in Slavic languages.
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