Скачать или смотреть Firefighters at scene of blaze which killed 38, hospital, morgue

(26 Apr 2013)
1. Wide of a fire engine and other vehicle at scene of the fire
2. Wide showing rescuers and fire-fighters through trees
3. Wide of parked police cars and an ambulance
4. Mid of fire investigators
5. Wide of forensics facility
6. Mid of EMERCOM (the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry) officers checking lists with names of patients, zoom in on papers
7. Close of sign on building reading (Russian) "Dmitrov Forensic Medical Department"
8. Wide of forensic experts entering office
9. Wide of forensics facility
STORYLINE:
An investigation is underway after 38 people were killed when fire swept through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow on Friday.
Health Ministry officials said that the one-story hospital housed patients with severe mental disorders.
Investigators said they are looking at violations of fire regulations and a short circuit as possible causes for the blaze that engulfed the hospital in the Ramensky settlement, some 85 kilometres (53 miles) north of the Russian capital.
At least 29 people were burned alive, said Irina Gumennaya, a spokeswoman for the federal Investigative Committee.
Investigators said the 38 dead included 36 patients and two doctors.
They said a nurse managed to escape and save one patient, while another patient got out on his own.
Gumennaya cited the surviving nurse as saying that the doors inside the hospital were not locked.
The Emergencies Ministry also posted a list of the patients indicating they ranged in age from 20 to 76.
An Emergencies Ministry official said the fire started in a wooden annex and then spread to the main brick building, which had wooden beams.
Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said that half of the patients took sedatives at night.
She insisted that the patients were not tied to their beds and were not given any medication that would leave them unconscious and unable to escape.
Skvortsova told state television that the hospital had all the necessary fire equipment, but conceded mental hospitals should be better equipped for emergencies than the current law requires.
President Vladimir Putin called for a thorough investigation into the deadly fire and asked regional authorities to pay more attention to safety regulations.
Russia has a poor fire safety record, with about 12,000 deaths reported in 2012.


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