On Sunday night, within an hour, two utility accidents occurred in the Moskovsky and Vyborgsky districts of St. Petersburg.
The first message about a defect in a 500 mm diameter pipeline was received by the Emergencies Ministry duty officer today at 01.50:XNUMX.
According to eyewitnesses, water from the burst pipeline was gushing under high pressure at night, water, pieces of soil and stones were hitting the windows of a nearby apartment building on Artists Avenue. The entrance near the epicenter of the accident was flooded, some apartments were damaged. As eyewitnesses of the incident told gursesintour.com, there was such pressure in the hot water pipe that the stream of boiling water rose as high as the 9th floor. It is reported that the pipeline where the accident occurred belongs to the State Unitary Enterprise "TEK SPb".
The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, whose rescuers took part in the liquidation of the accident, reported that no one was killed or injured in the incident. And at 02.30, a 15 mm pipeline defect was discovered near house No. 250, located on Khudozhnikov Street. Emergency teams are working on the scene.
