MOSCOW, May 10 (AVN) - The fire that emerged in the Defence Ministry space group command post overnight to Thursday continges to expand, a spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry's central rescue centre told the Military News Agency.
The fire was subsumed to the third category of complexity, the spokesman said.
The group of firemen that is battling the flames in the centre located in the Kurilovo village, Kaluga region, 35km north-west from the town of Serpukhov, has been reinforced. Two firemen crews equipped with a powerful foam generator are sent to the village from Moscow and another one will come from Kaluga.