“Three employees of the regiment of the Patrol and Inspection Service had to knock out the entrance door in order to take out the woman with the children from the smoke-logged apartment. As to the policemen, they got poisoned with combustion gases during the rescue operations,” said Russian MIA official representative Irina Volk.

At night, the squad composed of the section leader of the regiment of the Patrol and Inspection Service of the Russian MIA Administration for Nizhny Novgorod Police Warrant Officer Alexey Gorodetsky and two policemen of the same regiment Senior Police Sergeant Oleg Stolyarov and Police First Sergeant Nikolay Gontar were called on Akimova Street.

Having arrived at the scene, the policemen saw a woman in a window of the 8th floor crying for help. When they entered the front door, the stair landing had already been filled with dense smoke coming from under the door to the apartment. The patrol policemen called the EMERCOM and an ambulance at the scene, and then took duplicates of the keys from the neighbor and tried to enter the apartment. Yet, the entrance door was blocked from inside, and the policemen had to knock it out. Cries were heard from under the door to a room locked with a stick from the outside. According to the preliminary information, the father of the family, supposedly drunk, had blocked his wife and three children in the room. The policemen opened the room and took the woman and the children out from the apartment.

The sufferers are currently in a hospital. The employees of the squad of the Patrol and Inspection Service got poisoned with combustion gases during the rescue operations. Later on, the policemen delivered the 39-year old housefather to the district division of internal affairs. According to the preliminary information, he was the person responsible for the incident, including the fire in the apartment.

The management of the Russian MIA Administration for Nizhny Novgorod has nominated the employees who rescued the woman with the children for award.