{"id":539934,"date":"2026-05-07T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=539934"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:25:36","slug":"industrial-facilities-catch-fire-in-minsk-and-babruisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/industrial-facilities-catch-fire-in-minsk-and-babruisk","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Facilities Catch Fire in Minsk and Babruisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019 Emergency Situations Ministry reported the extinguishing of fires at two enterprises in Minsk and Babruisk.<\/p>\n<p>In Babruisk, a workshop producing fiberglass products caught fire yesterday evening on Ardzhanikidze Street. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Another fire broke out overnight in Minsk on Kazlou Street.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cUpon arrival at the scene, there were no visible external signs of a fire. During reconnaissance, it was established that on the first floor of a four-story refining workshop, a transformer, transformer oil, and cable insulation caught fire over a total area of 5 square meters,\u201d<\/i> the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve employees evacuated the enterprise independently. No one was injured. The technological process was not disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen pieces of equipment were deployed at the scene.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539845\" style=\"width: 848px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-539845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0651-frame-at-0m12s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0651-frame-at-0m12s.jpg 848w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0651-frame-at-0m12s-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0651-frame-at-0m12s-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0651-frame-at-0m12s-731x400.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire in Minsk. Photo: Emergency Situations Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539844\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-539844 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m1s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m1s.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m1s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m1s-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m1s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m1s-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire in Babruisk. Photo: Emergency Situations Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539843\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-539843 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m13s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m13s.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m13s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m13s-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m13s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m13s-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire in Babruisk. Photo: Emergency Situations Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539842\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-539842 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m20s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m20s.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m20s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m20s-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m20s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_0650-frame-at-0m20s-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire in Babruisk. Photo: Emergency Situations Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019 Emergency Situations Ministry reported the extinguishing of fires at two enterprises in Minsk and Babruisk. In Babruisk, a workshop producing fiberglass products caught fire yesterday evening on Ardzhanikidze Street. No one was injured. Another fire broke out overnight in Minsk on Kazlou Street. \u201cUpon arrival at the scene, there were no visible external signs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":539933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fc4c8417069.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Industrial Facilities Catch Fire in Minsk and Babruisk"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}