Best wishes for those people.

[milhent]

The story everyone follows today: in Magnitogorsk an explosion of household gas caused part of apartment building to collapse at 6am. There were approximately 120 people there, mostly still asleep. Situation for now - 52 people located, out of them 4 were found dead and 16 injured.
Dec.31st article - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46720260

Comments

[gevr]

oh my, that is not a good start for the new year. I hope no more people die :-(

[milhent]

Unfortunately, there are few chances of that as it is, and even less after cold night. Unfortunately, three more people were found dead by now. The only chance is for the ones who weren't celebrating New Year at home.

[gevr]

yes, I read the article after my last post. It doesn't look goed. We can indeed only hope that a lot of people were out celebrating ...

[twissie]

This didn't make it to the news over here, what an awful thing to happen!

[milhent]

It is horrible, there are still 36 people missing and 8 are confirmed dead. But there was a small miracle - this morning there was an 11 month old baby saved, who spent there over 35 hours.

[twissie]

Yikes. The baby survived 35 hours in the biting cold? That's a miracle indeed. Household gas can be scary, I'll run check on all my kitchen monitors to make sure everything is still working as expected (we don't use gas in Norway, so I had to learn about it after I came to Japan... I still find it a bit scary to know our place is hooked up to a gas line o__o;).

[milhent]

There were heavy-duty hot air blowers directed into the ruins. That's what have helped baby to survive -25C during night.
Household gas is normal here, most buildings have it instead of electrical stoves and ovens, which are common only if apartment building is over 12 floors tall, because it is much cheaper. I check my stove and always close gas at main pipe when I leave house for longer than 12 hours and there are some laws in the running to make gas monitors mandatory, but that is still in the future.