Electricity supply resumed in windstorm hit Tver Reg areas

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MOSCOW, January 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Electric power supply is resumed in
the Tver Region, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported late on Friday.
"As of 23:00 Moscow time, power supply in the Tver Region is fully
restored," the ministry's statement said.
Gusts of wind and fallen trees on electricity lines caused power
supply cutoff to 66 settlements of about 1,000 people in the region. A
total of 83 transformer substation were disconnected.


.More than 500 people still without electr in Moscow Reg -- official.



MOSCOW, January 8 (Itar-Tass) -- A total of more than 500 people are
still left without electric power supply in their houses and flats in the
Moscow Region, Russian chief state sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko,
head of the federal consumer rights protection and health control agency
(Rospotrebnadzor), said on Vesti FM Radio on Friday.
According to the official, some 160 private houses, where 262 people
reside, remain without electricity in the Ramenskoye district. About 200
people live in disconnected houses in the Orekhovo-Zuevo district. The
same problem remains in 13 apartment buildings in the town of Roshal,
where due to the lack of central heating, as Onishchenko explained, the
temperature in the flats is "obviously uncomfortable" - only 10-12 degrees.
However, there are no reports about a rising illness rate among the
population in the suburban residential sites affected by the power supply
disruptions, he noted.
Nevertheless, in the Shatura district and the town of Roshal, the
federal service headed by him initiates administrative suits. The first
"will be filed tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and the rest - right
after the holidays," he said
At the same time, the press service of the MRSK Holding told
Itar-Tass on Friday that in the zone of its responsibility in the Moscow
Region power supply was resumed in full to all the consumers by 18:00
Moscow time. Some of the consumers are supplied from diesel stations.
As of 22:00 Moscow time, the Moscow United Electric Grid Company had a
total of twelve 35-220-KW transmission lines and 36 transformer
substations still disconnected.
In the Moscow Region, 254 teams of the MRSK Holding and other
organisations, a total of 1,340 people with 211 machines, continue working
to completely resume the power supply.



.Five people die in Moscow building fire.



MOSCOW, January 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Five people died in a fire in Moscow,
a city police source told Itar-Tass.
The fire broke out in a deserted one-storey building at Goncharnaya
Embankment overnight.
Five dead bodies were found in the basement. Supposedly they died of
smoke poisoning, the source said.
The victims were not immediately identified.
The fire may have been caused by carelessness.



.Fire in central Moscow brought under control.
(updates)


MOSCOW, January 8 (Itar-Tass) -- Five people died in a fire in Moscow,
the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's Moscow department
told Itar-Tass.
The blaze broke out in a deserted building, 3/1, Goncharnaya
Embankment, overnight.
Firefighters found five dead bodies in the basement.
The blaze was brought under control. Firemen were pouring water on the
building, the source said.
What caused the fire has yet to be established.
A police source told Itar-Tass earlier that it might have been caused
by carelessness.
An inquiry is underway to establish the identities of the victims.
Seven people have died in fires in the capital in the first week of
the new year.
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