Fire at Substation Due to Lack of Heating

Yesterday the Ministry of Emergency Situations prevented the final failure Substation №214 owned by JSC Baku Electric (Bakıelektrikshebeke), deployed on the territory of the Khatai district of the capital.

Only emergency measures made it possible to limit the extent of the fire - about 1 meter of cable exiting burned. The official version of what happened is that the fire at the substation was associated with a sharp increase in electricity consumption in the evenings due to the use of electric heaters.

According to experts, this type of cases are caused by lack of proper heating system in residential buildings. The population of the city of Baku, to say nothing of the province, using the services of electricity, which can not withstand the loads resulting in a fire.

Officially heating season due to start in Baku, only 15 of November, but there is differences in air temperature, decreasing the evenings to 5 degrees, which leads to the use of electric heaters.

As the correspondent of Turan was told in Azeristiliktechizat, they are ready for the heating season earlier than the Cabinet scheduled (15 November). "The equipment is ready for operation, but it needs an executive order in the capital due to the fact that the Weather Center recorded average daily temperature is not above 8 degrees Celsius. Otherwise the heating season will start on schedule," they said there, but they did not answer, by what percentage the city is provided by heating equipment. --17D-