Ministry of Emergency Situations
of the Republic of Armenia

On October 28, at 02:08 an emergency call was received to Gegharkunik Regional Crisis Management Center that a house had been on fire in Mets Masrik village.

Two fire units from the Fire and Rescue Squad of Regional Rescue Department of the Rescue Service of the MES of RA dispatched to the scene.

It turned out that fire broke out in the roof (about 100 square meters) of a barn nearby a house in the 8th lane of the 8th street.

The fire was localized at 03:11 and extinguished at 05:36. The wooden constructions of the barn roof, the asbestos slates and the covering were partially burnt (about 50 square meters in total).