“Pushkin's Dreams” burned down: in Khabarovsk, a theater building collapsed due to a fire, eyewitnesses heard an explosion

“Pushkin's Dreams” burned down: a theater building collapsed in Khabarovsk due to a fire, eyewitnesses heard an explosion Irina Chebotnikova

Fire in a theater in Khabarovsk on October 3, 2024/Collage by Channel 24

On the night of October 3, Russian Telegram channels wrote about a fire in the regional musical theater. There are detainees at the scene, but it is not known whether this is an arson. Channel 24 has collected the details.

Interestingly, the day before, the Musical Comedy Theater in Yekaterinburg caught fire due to a short circuit on the fourth floor. People were forced to climb onto the roof to avoid suffocation.

A theater caught fire in Khabarovsk

The building was completely engulfed in flames, and a column of smoke was seen from different parts of the city. The fire was large: at first it was reported that the area of ​​the fire was about a thousand square meters, later it spread to 4 thousand.

Fire in the leading theater of Khabarovsk: watch the video

Eyewitnesses claimed that they periodically heard loud explosions. Presumably, these were four gas cylinders that were inside. The roof and walls of the building collapsed, blocking traffic on nearby streets.

The name of the play “Pushkin's Dreams” is noticeable on the facade/Screenshot of Channel 24

No casualties reported. At the time of the fire, there were 4 people in the theater who managed to leave the building. Most likely, we are talking about technical specialists, because the cast is on tour in Minsk.

The theater building was recently renovated, so, according to one version, building materials near the building could have caught fire, and then the fire spread to the theater. Another version is that they were careless when working with bitumen and insulation on the roof. Another version suggests that the cylinders caught fire during the repairs.

“Several people have been detained at the scene of the fire at the musical theater in Khabarovsk. However, it is not yet known whether the detentions are related to the fire or to the raids on migrants that are taking place in the city today,” Russians wrote on the morning of October 3.