YEREVAN. – The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of Armenia received information on August 15 at 3:24pm.

Accordingly, a grass area was on fire in the vicinity of Kharkov village in the Shirak Province, in the area of the Ani railway station turnpike.

A rescue squad as well as six fire and rescue workers from the Ani fire and rescue team were dispatched to the scene.

At 7:40pm, however, information was received that the health of Karapet Ayvazyan, commander of the Maralik town fire and rescue team, had sharply deteriorated during firefighting operations, and he had died en route to a hospital in Gyumri city.

The fire, on the other hand, was put out on Sunday at 2:05am, but 400 hectares of grass cover was destroyed by this fire.

Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned that Ayvazyan, who was born in 1963, had suffered a heart attack while fighting the aforesaid fire. And even though his colleagues had administered first aid on the spot, he had died on the way to hospital.