MOSCOW PUBLIC LIBRARY BLAZED UP IN SMOKE (745 hits)
Your World News
Day 29
January 2015
Moscow, Russia
BOOKS WERE BURNING....
Moscow's Public Library burned with a collasped roof as a huge fire burned a major part of the building. The Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences located in the Moscow's central district held over 14 millions items of documents, books and articles is one of the largest libraries. The fire was said to ignited on Friday, January 30, 2015 and burned through Friday, January 31, 2015. Firefighters were struggling to put out the burning materials had deep intense smoke which caused some difficulty in maintaining the fire's end. Although some parts of the collectives were not harmed major fire damage is reported at least 1 million historic documents were destroyed. There was no indications of injuries to emergency help or cilvian in this loss of irreplacable library materials.
