Operational headquarters in Dnipro for victims of gas explosion

First National, 2007. The news story highlights the functioning of the operational headquarters, which was opened to help victims of a gas explosion in a house in Dnipro.

On the video: operational headquarters for residents of a destroyed house; victims of a gas explosion in the Dnipro; destroyed house; comments by Minister of Emergency Situations Nestor Shufrych and Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Yuriy Vilkul (2006–2010) (both speak russian); residents take away their most valuables; search operations; photos of a missing child; cutting glass for neighboring entrances.

Reference: On 13 October 2007, a domestic gas explosion occurred in a ten-storey residential building on Mandrykovska Street in Dnipropetrovsk, completely destroying the entrance and damaging neighbouring buildings. Twenty-three people were killed, about 20 were injured, and dozens of families were left homeless. The investigation linked the tragedy to violations in the work of Dniprogaz, and several of its managers were convicted of negligence in 2013.