VIDEO: Fire Breaks Out at Construction Site of New Building

Auroranews has received a video from one of its followers showing a fire that has broken out in the area of a new building under construction.

Upon contacting the Ministry of Emergency Situations, we learned that at 15:40 today, the National Crisis Management Center received a report of a fire in the construction site of a new building on Paruyr Sevak Street in Yerevan.

Two fire-fighting units from the Yerevan Rescue Department have been dispatched to the scene. The level of complexity of the fire has been raised to a "1BIS" alarm, prompting the dispatch of two additional firefighting units, as well as an operational group from the Department for Organizing Firefighting and Rescue Operations.

The fire was contained by 16:25 and extinguished by 17:05.