Today at 1:33 p.m. the National Center for Crisis Management of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia received an alarm according to which people had noticed smoke coming out of the entrance to one of the buildings on Bagratunyats Avenue in Yerevan.

Two firefighting-rescue squads of the Yerevan Rescue Department of the Rescue Service left for the scene of the incident.

The fire was extinguished at 1:58 p.m. and left the cables on the second to fifth floors and two natural gas meters on the third floor burnt.

Rescuers evacuated eight citizens.