More than 2,000 fires claim 225 lives in Belarus since year’s start

March 18, Pozirk. Emergency services have reported 2,009 fires since the start of January, with a nearly 25-percent increase year on year, according to Pozirk‘s analysis of data by the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Belarus has also seen a sharp rise in fire casualties this year, with 225 dead, up 28.6 percent year on year, while 174 people were injured, marking a 72-percent increase.

Three people have died in fires across Belarus since the early morning of March 17, with incidents in Hrodna region’s Ščučyn district, Minsk region’s Barysaŭ and Mahiloŭ, where a fire in a dormitory prompted the evacuation of 18 people, including a minor.

Earlier this month, Dzianis Žukoŭski of the emergency situations ministry linked the rise in fires and fire-related deaths to “abnormally low temperatures recorded in January and early February.”

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Belarus experienced coldest winter in 15 years

March 12, Pozirk. Belarus saw the coldest winter in the last 15 years this year with an average temperature of minus 5.7 degrees Celsius, which is lower by 2.3 degrees than the normal level, found Pozirk’s analysis of data from …

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