MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti) - The fire that broke out in an office building in the Russian capital has been extinguished, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.
"The fire in the Pressa Publishers building was put out at 19:17 Moscow time," a ministry spokesman said, adding that two firefighters had been hospitalized after trying to extinguish the fire that engulfed 2,000 square meters and caused two cases of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The fire spread quickly on the sixth floor of the building that houses the offices of several Russian newspapers, including popular daily Komsomolskaya Pravda in Moscow downtown this morning after it broke out at about 10:45 a.m. Moscow time (7:45 a.m. GMT). Part of the ceiling between the sixth and seventh floors in the eight-story building collapsed, which complicated firefighting efforts.
