10 march, 2024 sunday
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A fire has broken out in a 1,000-square-meter hangar in St. Petersburg, Russia. Two people have been hospitalized.
This was reported by Fontanka.
The fire is ongoing on Volkhonskoe Highway, on the territory of the Gorelovo production zone in the Leningrad Region. A kilometer-long hangar is on fire there.
According to the publication, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that 75 specialists are working at the scene of the fire, using 21 pieces of equipment.
Two victims are known to have been hospitalized.
An eyewitness told the outlet that no burning chemicals were felt in the air, but the smell from the fire was “unpleasant, but not pungent.”
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A large-scale fire near the airport in st. petersburg could have been caused by air defense systems
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A massive fire continues to burn near the pulkovo airport in st. petersburg, likely caused by air defense systems shooting down a drone. The fire has restricted airplane flights at the airport.
Due to a severe fire in an industrial area near pulkovo airport, restrictions were imposed on aircraft takeoffs and landings. Before the fire, air defense was operating in the airport area. This was reported by UNN with reference to russian public media.
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It is known that in the municipal district of gorelovo near the pulkovo airport, warehouses in a hangar with an area of 1000 square meters are on fire. The building’s roof and walls have partially collapsed.
Two people were injured and hospitalized.
Those Russian air defense missiles seem to create more damage than Ukrainian drones, or even careless smokers! I guess it would be safer for the population if those dangerously unreliable systems were disarmed. Safety first! 😎
/ironic
Burn, mafia land, burn!
Some like it hot! 😁
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“One kilometer long hangar”
“1,000-square-meter hangar”
For it to be 1,000 square meters and a kilometer long, that means it would have to be only one meter wide. Maybe it’s designed for waves of drones? 🙂
More likely, there was a translation error somewhere.
Right, Larry! And btw, a Beriev A-50 is 49.6 long, with a wingspan of 50.5 m. So it needs a hangar of at least 2500 m². If that’s an aircraft factory, a production hangar of a kilometer length may make sense, but then it’s got go have upwards of 50.000 square meters. And the satellite pictures don’t correspond with that, imho. The journos got the numbers very much mixed up, it seems. Maybe it’s a maintenance hangar of 10.000 m², that seems more reasonable.
Maybe it is just a translation error, they might be meaning 1000 meter squared. It’s a simple error anyone can make.