On June 24, at 11:36 pm, the National Center for Crisis Management of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was alerted that a fire had broken out in one of the cottages on the 26th street of Kharberd Summer Houses in Yerevan.

Three combat units from the fire and rescue squads of the Rescue Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yerevan and the patrol group of the Department of Firefighting and Rescue Operations were dispatched to the scene.